Imperfective verbs and time words for talking about repeated, ongoing or unfinished actions in the past: писал, читали, ходили медленно.
писа́ть
to write (impf.) - writing in progress, not completed
чита́ть
to read (impf.) - reading as an ongoing process
идти́
to go, to walk (impf.) - movement in progress, one direction
говори́ть
to speak, to talk (impf.) - ongoing act of speaking
де́лать
to do, to make (impf.) - general action with no specific completion
брать
to take (impf.) - repeated action
дава́ть
to give (impf.) - repeated giving
оставля́ть
to leave (behind) (impf.) - leaving gradually or repeatedly
находи́ть
to find (impf.) - finding as a process or habit
расска́зывать
to tell, to recount (impf.) - ongoing storytelling
слу́шать
to listen (impf.) - active listening with no fixed end
смотре́ть
to look, to watch (impf.) - ongoing watching
есть
to eat (impf.)
пить
to drink (impf.) - drinking in progress
спать
to sleep (impf.) - prolonged sleep
жить
to live (impf.) - living over a long period
проводи́ть
to spend (time) (impf.) - spending time on an ongoing basis
покупа́ть
to buy (impf.) - repeated buying
прода́ть / продава́ть
to sell (pf. / impf.) - a single sale vs. selling repeatedly
обы́чно
usually (adv.) - with normal frequency
ча́сто
often (adv.) - with high frequency
иногда́
sometimes (adv.) - with low frequency
вся́кий раз
every time - it always happens
ка́ждый день
every day - repeats day after day
еже́дневно
daily (adv.) - day to day
еженеде́льно
weekly (adv.) - every week
ежеме́сячно
monthly (adv.) - every month
ежего́дно
annually, yearly (adv.) - every year
в то время как
while, whereas (conj.) - simultaneous actions
пока́
while (conj.) - during another action
до того́ как
before (conj.) - chronological order
пока́ ещё
still, for now - the action continues
про́шлое
the past (n.) - time gone by
про́шлый
last, past (adj., masc.) - describes time that has gone by
про́шлая неде́ля
last week (fem.) - the week that has passed
про́шлый ме́сяц
last month (masc.) - the month that has passed
тогда́
then, at that time (adv.) - at a point in the past
тогда́ же
at that very moment, right then
вре́мя от вре́мени
from time to time - irregularly
то и де́ло
every now and then, constantly - very frequently
непреста́нно
incessantly, nonstop (adv.)