Simple Past Tense Sentences

Question 1

.I played football Yesterday.

Answer 1

mainne kal phutabol khela.

Question 2

She woke up early in the morning

Answer 2

Usne subah jaldee uthee

Question 3

You didn’t write a letter last week.

Answer 3

aapane pichhale saptaah koee patr nahin likha.
(Pichale = last; Saptaah = week; Koee = any; Patr = letter)

Question 4

They went to the office early.

Answer 4

Usne jaldee kaaryaalay gaya
(Jaldee = early; kaaryaalay = office)

Question 5

Did you sing the song on stage?

Answer 5

kya aapane manch par gaana gaaya?

Question 6

We ate pizza in the bakery shop.

Answer 6

hamane bekaree kee dukaan mein pijja khaaya.
(Don’t know why it’s not khaayE) (bekaree kee dukaan = bakery shop)

Question 7

My father lived in California.

Answer 7

mere pita kailiphorniya mein rahate the.
(rahate the = used to live, not simple past, per google, but my Hindi verb book says live = jina; from another source: Jīnā = exist, be happy, rahana = stay, remain, bide, live in, abide) (simple past: jiya or raga)

Question 8

She spoke good English to the interviewer.

Answer 8

usane saakshaatkaarakarta se achchhee angrejee mein baat kee.
(I don’t get this. Baat kee? I think speak is bolna. So bola or boli or bole? And I thought se = from; mein = in)

Question 9

Did you not finish your homework?

Answer 9

kya tumane apana grhakaary poora nahin kiya?
(Instead of finish, they use the past tense do, kaarna, poora = complete, so make complete?)
(grhakaary = homework; apana seems to mean your but I can’t find that)

Question 10

When did you buy this mobile?

Answer 10

aapane yah mobail kab khareeda?

Question 11

John played football, didn’t he?

Answer 11

jon ne phutabol khela, hai na?

Question 12

How long did the flight journey take?

Answer 12

havaee yaatra mein kitana samay laga?
(Have = airport; yaatra = travel; kitana = how much; Sammy = time; no idea what mein is doing here; laga = felt so don’t know why it’s not liya from lena)

Question 13

My mother cooked delicious food Yesterday.

Answer 13

meree maan ne kal svaadisht khaana pakaaya.

Question 14

My friend watched a horror movie.

Answer 14

mere dost ne ek daraavanee philm dekhee.
(Ek = one. Seems to act in place of the article “a” or “an” but they don’t use articles in Hindi)

Question 15

You went to Spain last year.

Answer 15

aap pichhale saal spen gae the.
(Once again it appears that Google translate did not use the simple past, which would have been gaya or gaí; and it would be aapne)(saal = year)

Question 16

I wrote an email to my brother.

Answer 16

mainne apane bhaee ko ek eemel likha.
(Ko ek = to one; apane seems to replace mera, see: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/hindi-apne-vs-mera.1868883/ )

Question 17

They didn’t go to work.

Answer 17

ve kaam par nahin gaye.
(par doesn’t make sense to me here since it means on)

Question 18

We drank a whole bottle each.

Answer 18

ham donon ne ek-ek pooree botal pee lee.
(I don’t get this one; drank = pie from pina or peeye from peena)(why isn’t it ham ne?) (donon = both)

Question 19

I missed college a whole year.

Answer 19

main ek poora saal kolej se chook gaya.
????

Question 20

I learned twenty sentences.

Answer 20

mainne bees vaaky seekhe.
(Bees = twenty). Why is it seekhe not seekha?