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Past Tenses & Future

Preteritum, perfekt, pluskvamperfekt and the future with kommer att / ska
Preteritum: talade
simple past: talked
TAH-la-deh
jag talade = I talked
Inget person-/talböjning i preteritum heller
Preteritum has no person agreement either
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jag/du/han talade — all identical
Perfekt: har talat
present perfect: have talked
hahr TAH-lat
jag har talat = I have talked
Pluskvamperfekt: hade talat
past perfect: had talked
HAH-deh TAH-lat
jag hade talat = I had talked
Futurum: ska + infinitiv
future: will/going to
skah
jag ska tala = I will talk / I'm going to talk
kommer att + infinitiv
alternative future construction
KOM-mer at
jag kommer att tala = I will talk
var, hade
was/were, had (irregular preteritum)
vahr, HAH-deh
The irregular past forms of vara and ha
Preteritum grupp 1: -ade
Group 1 preteritum ending: -ade
talade, arbetade
The most common past-tense pattern
Preteritum grupp 3: -dde/-tte
Group 3 preteritum ending: -dde/-tte
bodde, trodde
Short verbs form their past tense this way
var, gick, åt
common irregular preteritum forms
was, went, ate
High-frequency verbs with unpredictable past forms