🇳🇱 Dutch
Nederlands • 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.
Vandaag ga ik naar huis.
Today I go home.
Ik sta om 7 uur op.
I get up at 7.
Ik ben hier.
I am here.
Ik wil water.
I want water.
Ik begrijp het niet.
I don't understand.
Spreek je Engels?
Do you speak English? (informal)
Waar is het toilet?
Where is the toilet?
Dit is mijn vriend.
This is my friend.
Drills
Build a past sentence
Today I go home.
Your sentence
Click tokens below to build the sentence.
Tokens
Mini‑quiz
Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “Today I go home.”?