🇸🇦 Arabic
العربية • Arabic
Talking about the past (yesterday, earlier, last week)
A beginner‑friendly approach to past tense: start with one safe past pattern and reuse it.
The strategy
Don’t try to master every tense. Start with one common past pattern from real sentences.
- Use time words (yesterday/last week) to make meaning clear.
- Copy a native past pattern and reuse it with different verbs.
أريد
urid
I want
أذهب
adhhab
I go
أنا هنا.
ana huna
I am here.
أريد ماء.
urid ma'
I want water.
لا أفهم.
la afham
I don't understand.
هل تتكلم الإنجليزية؟
hal tatakallam al-ingliziyya
Do you speak English?
أين الحمام؟
ayna al-hammam
Where is the bathroom?
هذا صديقي.
hatha sadiqi
This is my friend.
Drills
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urid
I want
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