Many verbs in English have an irregular past tense. This lesson introduces some of the more common ones.
The English verb be is very irregular in both the present and past tense. The following table shows the past tense of the verb be.
| I was | |
| he was | |
| she was | |
| it was | |
| we were | |
| you were | |
| they were |
| I was at the store. | كنت في متجر |
| He was tired. | كان متعبا |
| They were happy. | كانوا سعداء |
| We were at home. | كنا في المنزل |
| Were they at the beach? | كانوا على الشاطئ؟ |
| They were not at the beach. | لم يكونوا على الشاطئ |
| The car was dirty. | وكانت السيارة قذرة |
| The windows were dirty. | وكانت النوافذ القذرة |
A lot of other very common English verbs also have an irregular past tense. The following table shows the past tense for some very common English verbs. Unlike for the verb be, there is only one form of the past tense for these verbs.
الإعلانات
| Verb | Past Tense | |
|---|---|---|
| bring | brought | أحضر |
| buy | bought | شراء |
| choose | chose | ليشرب |
| do | did | فعل |
| drink | drank | ليشرب |
| eat | ate | لتناول الطعام |
| find | found | للعثور على |
| go | went | للذهاب |
| get | got | تحصل |
| give | gave | أعطى |
| have | had | لامتلاك |
| hold | held | ليمسك |
| make | made | جعل |
| run | ran | لتشغيل |
| sit | sat | لأجلس |
| say | said | ليقول |
| stand | stood | على الوقوف |
| take | took | أخذ |
| tell | told | حكى |
| think | thought | فكر |
| We brought some cookies. | أحضرنا بعض ملفات تعريف الارتباط |
| She drank the coffee. | شربت المرأة القهوة |
| I found the keys. | لقد وجدت المفاتيح |
| The cat sat by the window. | جلست القط بجانب النافذة |
| I thought you said something. | اعتقدت أنك قلت شيئا |