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:oops: Oops! Забывал, you're right! :oops: I have changed it now to eliminate confusion.

No bother at all! I am grateful to pass on any knowledge.

Here's a little rundown on imperfective/perfective verbs (which I couldn't understand at all until I got to it in the Penguin course, from...

Я покупала also means 'I bought' but has a little more meaning. It's more like 'I was buying' e.g. Я покупала сыр, когда я его увидела - I was buying cheese when I saw him.

покупать is the imperfective form of 'to buy'.
купить is the perfective.

You could say 'Я часто покупаю продукты' - 'I often buy groceries'. Meaning that it is a habitual action.
While, Я куплю...