In Chapter 2, we learned verb “to be” in the present tense, which is “است/ هست. Today, in this lesson, we are going to learn about the verb “to be” in the past tense. Simple past tense in Persian shows  an action that happened and was completed in the past. 

Previously we learned that in order to make a sentence in present tense we need to use present stem of the verb. to make a sentence in past tense we need past stem of the verb. as you see in the table below, to form simple past tense, we remove the ن from the end of infinitive form.

example:

Here, I have made a list of all the English pronoun, with their Persian equivalents with verb “to be” in the past tense which  would be “بود”.

As always, we must add verb ending that matches with noun/ pronoun when we conjugate them.

Conjugation table:

Here is an example of the verb “to be” in the past sentence.

In Persian Language, suffix pronouns are connected to the end of a word and can not appear alone.

Here is a chart of suffix pronoun table:

The word can be:

noun + suffix pronoun               Example:             کتاب +ش = کتابش

preposition + suffix pronoun    Example:             برای  + او = برایش

verb + suffix pronoun                Example: می بینم + او را = می بینمش