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The compound past is used to describe an action that happened only once: I ate dinner at Raul's house last night. We went to a movie. The compound past is formed by a conjugated form of "to have" plus the past participle of the verb.
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Compound Past Forms:
a. am *
b. ai
c. a
d. am *
e. aţi
f. au
Note: To negate a past tense you add a 'nu' in front of the 'avea' helping verb. This often gets shortened to 'n-'.
g. Nu am/N-am
h. Nu ai/N-ai
i. Nu au/N-au
- a. I've
- b. You've
- c. He/She has
- d. We've
- e. You've all
- f. They've
- g. I did not
- h. You didn't
- i. They did not
- *You can use the personal pronouns to stress who is the doer of the action.
- Eu am făcut. (I did.)
- Noi am făcut. (We did.)
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-a, -ea, -i, and -î verbs have the suffixes (?), (?), (?), and (?).
-e verbs have 3 suffixes - (?), (?), and (?). They don't have a set standard for their conjugations. Best to learn them by heart.
- (at), (ut), (it), and (ât)
- (ut), (s), and (t)
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1. -a
a. Add
b. da
c. lua
d. mânca
e. sta
f. alerga
- a. (t)
- b. dat (gave)
- c. luat (took)
- d. mâncat (eat)
- e. stat (stayed)
- f. alergat (ran)
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2. -ea
a. Replace with
b. avea
c. vrea
d. putea
e. bea
f. vedea
- a. (ut)
- b. avut (had)
- c. vrut (wanted)
- d. putut (could)
- e. but (drank)
- f. vedut (seen)
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3. -e
a. Replace with
b. If final consonant is d, change to
-OR-
c. Replace with
d. If final vowel is i, change e to s
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e. Replace with
- a. (ut)
- b. (z)
- c. (s)
- d. (s)
- e. (t)
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4. -e examples
a. începe
b. crede
c. scrie
d. înţelege
e. râde
f. fierbe
- a. început (started)
- b. crezut (thought)
- c. scris (wrote)
- d. înţeles (understood)
- e. râs (laughed)
- f. fiert (boiled)
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5. -i
a. Add
b. ieşi
c. dormi
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6. -î
a. Replace with
b. urî
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a. Ai băut ultima bere din frigider?
b. Da, de ce? N-am ştiut că ai vrut nişte bere.
c. Ai spart masa!
d. A fost spartă mai demult. *
e. Aţi venit ieri?
f. Pisicile au mîncat şoarecii.
g. Noi n-am văzut nimic! **
h. Ea niciodată n-a auzit nimic. **
i. Ieri am primit o scrisoare de la el.
j. Au mers pînă la vamă.
k. Am vorbit toata ziua.
l. N-au spus nimic. **
m. Maşina n-a fost nicăieri. **
- a. Did you drink the last beer from the refrigerator?
- b. Yes, why? I didn't know that you wanted some beer.
- c. You broke the table!
- d. It was broken a while ago.
- e. Did you all come yesterday?
- f. The cats ate the mice.
- g. We didn't see anything!
- h. She never heard anything.
- i. I got a letter from him yesterday.
- h. They went up to the border.
- k. We talked the whole day.
- l. They didn't say anything.
- m. The car wasn't anywhere.
*Sometimes the past tense conjugation of the verb can be used as an adjective as well. Masculine and Feminine genders will be used.
- ** Double-negatives are used in past tense negations.
- nimeni (nobody)
- nicăieri (nowhere)
- niciodată (never)
- nimic (nothing)
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