🇸🇪 Swedish
Svenska • 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.
Jag gick igår.
I went yesterday.
Jag ska gå.
I will go.
Jag är här.
I am here.
Jag vill ha vatten.
I want water.
Jag förstår inte.
I don't understand.
Pratar du engelska?
Do you speak English?
Var är toaletten?
Where is the toilet?
Det här är min vän.
This is my friend.
Drills
Build a past sentence
I went yesterday.
Your sentence
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Tokens
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Which sentence matches “I went yesterday.”?