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il imaginait

imagined, was imagining

→ imaginer
imagin to imagine, to picture + ait il/elle imperfect conjugation
verb · 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #43,177
imagined, was imagining Can mean forming a mental picture of someone or something, or thinking that something might be true.
FR: Il imaginait une maison au bord de la mer.
EN: He imagined a house by the sea.
Conjugation of imaginer
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
First imaginais —
Second imaginais imaginiez
Third imaginait —

Mais elle m'imaginait différemment.

But she imagined me differently.

— Rebecca (1940)

Qu'imaginait-elle ?

What was she imagining?

— Rebecca (1940)

Il a rendu possible ce que personne n'imaginait.

He made possible what no one imagined.

En tout cas, c'est pas tout à fait ce qu'on imaginait.

In any case, it's not quite what we imagined.

— Anaconda (2025)

Elle ne vous imaginait certainement pas en assassin.

She certainly never imagined you as a murderer.

— Monsieur Hire (1989)