Past Habitual Tense

ماضی عادی

About this concept

Expresses habitual past actions: verb stem + تا/تی/تے + تھا/تھی/تھے. میں جاتا تھا maiṅ jātā thā (I used to go, male). Equivalent to English 'used to'. No ergativity.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level A2.

Examples

میں روز سکول جاتا تھا۔ (m)I used to go to school every day.

وہ بہت پڑھتی تھی۔ (f)She used to study a lot.

ہم کرکٹ کھیلتے تھے۔We used to play cricket.

وہاں بہت بارش ہوتی تھی۔It used to rain a lot there.

Prerequisite

Present Habitual TenseA1

More A2 concepts

Simple Past Tenseماضی مطلق Split Ergativity (نے Construction)نے والی ساخت Past Continuous Tenseماضی جاری Possessive کا/کی/کےاضافت «کا/کی/کے»Compound Postpositionsمرکب حروفِ جار

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