We use the past simple to talk about things that started and finished in past.

Vi bruker the simple past (preteritum) for å snakke om handlinger som begynte og ble avsluttet i fortiden.

Regular verbs

To talk (å snakke)

The Past Simple

Italked
youtalked
he
she
it
talked
wetalked
youtalked
theytalked

Her ser du hvordan verbet TO TALK bøyes i preteritum.

Regelrette verb får endelsen +ed i preteritum.

The Present Simple
I talk English.
She talks English.
They talk English.

The Past Simple
I talked English.
She talked English.
They talked English

Irregular verbs

Many verbs in English are irregular. That means that they do not follow the normal pattern of -ed in the past simple and perfect past. You have to memorize irregular verbs.

You find a list of irregular verbs here.

På engelsk finnes det mange uregelrette verb. Det betyr at de ikke følger det vanlige bøyningsmønsteret og får endelsen -ed i preteritum og presens perfektum. Du må pugge uregelrette verb.

Her finner du en liste over uregelrette verb.