The imperfect fundamentally presents an action or state as being a "context" and is thus essentially descriptive. It does not present actions or states as having ends and often does not present their beginnings either. Like the Slavic imperfective past, it tends to show actions that used to be done at some point, as in a routine. In this case, one would say "Yo jugaba" ("I used to play"), "Yo leía" ("I used to read"), or "Yo escribía" ("I used to write").