🇫🇷 French
Français • Latin
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.
J'ai mangé.
I ate / I have eaten.
J'ai un stylo.
I have a pen.
Je vais au travail.
I go / I’m going to work.
Je suis ici.
I am here.
Je veux de l'eau.
I want water.
Je ne comprends pas.
I don't understand.
Est-ce que vous parlez anglais ?
Do you speak English? (formal/plural)
Où sont les toilettes ?
Where are the toilets?
Drills
Build a past sentence
I ate / I have eaten.
Your sentence
Click tokens below to build the sentence.
Tokens
Mini‑quiz
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Which sentence matches “I ate / I have eaten.”?