Past present and future tense practice.

Past vs Future vs Present

There are thee key words which indicate to us which tense (past, present or future) is being used: 

Pou - be going to (future indication)

Pay - is/am doing (present indication)

ti [Tea] - (past indication)

Future:

The future can be indicated in two ways

1) going to

I am going to the shop - mo pay al laboutik (this is a present tense which indicates the future so in order to avoid confusion you must indicate WHEN the action will occur. 

Examples: deman mo pay al gym - tomorrow I am going to the gym

Dan 2 zer temps mo pay al guette football. 

2) will

Examples: 

I will go to the shop - mo pou al laboutik. 

They will drive all night - Zot pou conduire toute la nuit

Past: there are two ways in which the past can be used:

1) add the word 'ti' before the verb

2) change the pronoun

Examples:

They ate - zot ti manze

They ate - zone [zon] manze pizza

I loved - mo ti content

I loved - mon content

You liked - to ti content

You liked - tone [ton] content

He/she spoke - li ti kozer [cosay]

He/she spoke - lin kozer

They learned - zot ti apprane

They learned - zone apprane

We visited - nou ti visite

We visited - noune [nun] visite