🇮🇳 Hindi
हिन्दी • Devanagari
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.
मैं हूँ।
main hoon
I am.
यह अच्छा है।
yah achchha hai
This is good.
मैं चाय पीता हूँ।
main chai peeta hoon
I drink tea. (masc. speaker; use पीती for fem.)
मैं यहाँ हूँ।
main yahan hoon
I am here.
मुझे पानी चाहिए।
mujhe paani chahiye
I want/need water.
मैं नहीं समझता।
main nahi samajhta
I don't understand. (masc. speaker; use समझती for fem.)
क्या आप अंग्रेज़ी बोलते हैं?
kya aap angrezi bolte hain
Do you speak English? (formal; verb may change by gender)
शौचालय कहाँ है?
shauchalay kahan hai
Where is the bathroom/toilet?
Drills
Build a past sentence
main hoon
I am.
Your sentence
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Which sentence matches “I am.”?