I’ve made a “Past tense recipe” to go with our theme of food and cooking.
Past tense is verlede tyd in Afrikaans.
Recipe for Past tense:
Ingredients
- Het
- Ge+ verb (some verbs need glue –the ge- goes inside the verb)
Method
Step 1: Look at the sentence and identify the verb.
Step 2: Verb goes to the end of the sentence and gets a “ge”
Step 3: The person doing the action comes first and then add “het”. (To establish who is doing the action you need to ask the questions: who is doing the action?)
Examples:
Ouma maak kos.
Verb: maak
Ouma het kos gemaak.
Hy loop in die straat.
Verb: loop
Past tense: Hy het in die straat geloop.
Sy hardloop om die baan.
Verb: Sy het om die baan gehardloop.