The Imperfect Tense of parecerse is used to describe an ongoing or repeated action in the past, for example, Antes me parecía a mi madre. (Before, I resembled my mother.)

Parecerse is a regular -er verb, so its conjugations in the Imperfect Tense follow the regular pattern for that verb type.

Conjugations

Conjugations of Parecerse (to look like) in the Imperfect Tense tense (Castilian Spanish):

The imperfect tense of parecerse is used to describe ongoing or repeated actions in the past, as well as descriptions and states of being.

To resemble or look like someone/something: For example, De niño, me parecía a mi padre. (As a child, I resembled my father.)

To seem or appear: For example, Me parecía que estaba enferma. (It seemed to me that she was sick.)

To have the impression of: For example, Me parecía que no me escuchaba. (I had the impression that he wasn’t listening to me.)

To look like (colloquial): For example, ¿A quién te parecías con ese peinado? (Who did you look like with that hairstyle?)

Examples

Examples of Parecerse in the Imperfect Tense

Cuando era niño, mi hermano y yo nos parecíamos mucho. (When we were children, my brother and I looked very much alike.)

Esos dos actores se parecían tanto que era difícil distinguirlos. (Those two actors looked so alike that it was hard to tell them apart.)

La nueva receta no se parecía en nada a la original. (The new recipe was nothing like the original.)

Vosotros os parecíais mucho a vuestros padres de jóvenes. (You looked a lot like your parents when they were young.)

Aunque eran gemelos, ellos no se parecían en absoluto. (Even though they were twins, they didn’t look alike at all.)

El paisaje se parecía a una pintura impresionista. (The landscape looked like an Impressionist painting.)

Ustedes se parecían tanto cuando eran pequeños. (You looked so much alike when you were little.)

La nueva aplicación se parecía demasiado a las existentes. (The new app was too similar to the existing ones.)

Yo me parecía mucho a mi abuela de joven. (I looked a lot like my grandmother when she was young.)

Las propuestas se parecían tanto que fue difícil elegir una. (The proposals were so similar that it was hard to choose one.)

Tú te parecías a tu padre cuando eras adolescente. (You looked like your father when you were a teenager.)

Ellos se parecían tanto que la gente siempre los confundía. (They looked so much alike that people always got them confused.)

La nueva moda se parecía mucho a la de los años 80. (The new fashion trend was very similar to the one from the 80s.)

Nosotros nos parecíamos en nuestros gustos musicales. (We were alike in our musical tastes.)

Esa película se parecía demasiado a la novela original. (That movie was too similar to the original novel.)

Conjugations with English Translations

Conjugations of Parecerse (to look like) in the Imperfect Tense tense (Castilian Spanish) with English Translations:

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Synonyms

The Imperfect tense is also known as the Past Imperfect, Descriptive Past, Past Progressive, or Imperfect Indicative in English, and as Pretérito Imperfecto, Copretérito, Imperfecto de Indicativo, or Pasado Descriptivo in Spanish.