Time Tenses (Unfinished) Flashcards
List of time tenses:
Present Tense
Past Tense
Future Tense
That’s all!
Sometimes there’s an extra word you can learn that lets you express a different concept/thing.
How to express “I would like to eat”
Rad bi jedel
the “bi” translates to would
Present tense
Srkati - to sip
(Jaz) srkam
I sip / I’m sipping
(Ti) srkaš
You …
(On/Ona/Ono) srka
(he/she/it) …
(Mi) srkamo
We …
(Vi) srkate
you (plural) …
(Oni/One)¹ srkajo
They …
¹: oni - masculine, one -> feminine
One means “they” are all female
oni just means it’s either males or just more than one thing/person
Extra note:
In Slovenian, there each person case
(I, you, he, …)
has its own word ending
because of this you don’t have to say who is doing something, you can just say “is sipping”
because if you say
srkam/srkaš/srka, a person can guess who you’re talking about
Of course there are exceptions and sometimes toy still have to tell who you’re talking about, but it’s not always necessary.
Past Tense
Hoditi - to walk
person + (to be, in correct form², present tense) + L ending
or LA ending if person = female / only females
²: in correct form just means that if person = we
We walked
Mi smo hodili
mi smo means we are
if person = I
it’s Jaz sem
it’s present tense rules for “to be”
Singular
- Jaz sem hodil = hodil sem
Jaz sem hodila¹ = Hodila sem¹ - Ti si hodil = hodil si
Ti si hodila = hodila si - On je hodil = hodil je
Ona je hodila = hodila je
Ono je hodilo = hodilo je
Dual:
WORKING ON IT
Plural
1. Mi smo hodili
Mi smo hodile
- Vi ste hodili
Vi ste hodile - Oni so hodili
One so hodile