Grammer – Past Continuous

✅ Past Continuous Tense

Persian: گذشته استمراری
Finglish: Gozashte-ye Estemrāri

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💡 Meaning & Use

This tense is used to describe actions that were:

• Happening continuously in the past
• Often interrupted by another action
• Or happened alongside another

🔸 Like English:

• I was eating when she called.
• They were playing football all evening.

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🔧 Structure

Formula:

می‌ + past stem + past personal ending

• می‌ = mi- (continuous marker)
• Past stem = from the past tense of the verb
• Personal ending = shows the subject (I, you, etc.)

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📘 Verb Example 1: خوردن (to eat)

Finglish verb root: khordan

Subject	Persian	Finglish	English
من	می‌خوردم	mikhordam	I was eating
تو	می‌خوردی	mikhordi	You were eating
او	می‌خورد	mikhorad	He/She was eating
ما	می‌خوردیم	mikhordim	We were eating
شما	می‌خوردید	mikhordid	You (pl.) were eating
آن‌ها	می‌خوردند	mikhordand	They were eating

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📘 Verb Example 2: نوشتن (to write)

Finglish verb root: neveshtan

Subject	Persian	Finglish	English
من	می‌نوشتم	mineveshtam	I was writing
تو	می‌نوشتی	mineveshti	You were writing
او	می‌نوشت	minevesht	He/She was writing
ما	می‌نوشتیم	mineveshtim	We were writing
شما	می‌نوشتید	mineveshtid	You (pl.) were writing
آن‌ها	می‌نوشتند	mineveshtand	They were writing

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🧠 Tips for Learners

• می‌ (mi-) always comes at the beginning of the verb.
• The personal endings match those in the simple past.
• Often used with time expressions like:

Persian	Finglish	English
وقتی که…	vaghti ke…	when…
در آن زمان	dar ān zamān	at that time
تمام روز	tamām-e ruz	all day

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📝 Sample Sentence:

وقتی رسیدم، او می‌خوابید.
Vaghti residam, u mikhābid.
➤ When I arrived, he/she was sleeping.

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