When English speakers talk about something that they did regularly [regelmäßig] in the past but that they no longer do, they often use the construction „used to“ + infinitive.
EXAMPLE
“I always used to go to this playground when I was a child”.
Als ich ein Kind war, bin ich immer auf diesen Spielplatz gegangen.
This construction is very common in English. It expresses [ausdrücken] a past habit [vergangene Gewohnheit]. When you use “used to” you’re saying that you no longer do the thing you’re talking about.
Work through the following pages to learn more and practice this construction.