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il importait

mattered, was important

→ importer
im not; opposite of + port to wear + ait 3rd-person singular imperfect
verb · 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #38,029
mattered, was important In this use, importer means “to matter” or “to be important.”
FR: Son avis m'importait beaucoup.
EN: His opinion mattered a lot to me.
Conjugation of importer
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
Third importait —

Avant de découvrir les Atlilar rien ne m'importait.

Before discovering the Atlilar, nothing mattered to me.

— Insaisissables 3 (2025)

Le reste m'importait peu, je vous jure.

I swear, I didn't care about the rest.

Peu m'importait pour qui, ou sur qui je m'en servais.

I hardly cared who it was for, or whom I used it against.

— Avengers (2012)

Le journal importait peu.

The newspaper mattered little.

J'imagine que la vie d'autrui lui importait.

I guess other people's lives mattered to him.

— Tout sur ma mère (1999)

Vous avez dit vous-même, Monsieur le Ministre, que la campagne importait peu.

You yourself said, Minister, that the campaign mattered little.

— No (2012)

Peu importait son sexe.

His gender didn't matter.

— Die My Love (2025)

Peu importait la bagnole, le circuit.

The car and the track didn’t matter.

— F1® Le Film (2025)