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Past Perfect Endings

Level 3Sounds Like karaichilōm̐ / karaichilā / karaichila

মই ৰাতিপুৱা নতুন কিতাপখন পঢ়িছিলোঁ “I read the new book in the morning”.

How It Works

Compare three tenses of the same verb. কৰিছোঁ “I have done” is about now. কৰিলোঁ “I did” tells what happened. কৰিছিলোঁ goes further back. English may say “I did”, “I had done” or “I used to do”, so this form is called the past perfect only loosely.

PersonEndingExample
মই, আমি-িছিলোঁকৰিছিলোঁ
তুমি-িছিলাকৰিছিলা
সি, তাই, তেওঁ-িছিলকৰিছিল

With আপুনি you may also see -িছিলে. The same pattern works for a habit in the past: মোৰ দেউতাই ভ্ৰমণ কৰিছিল “my father used to travel”. One negative is the -া form with নাছিল, as in the row কৰা নাছিলোঁ. Written Assamese also has ন- on the verb, as in নকৰিছিল.

Examples (5)

  1. মই ৰাতিপুৱা নতুন কিতাপখন পঢ়িছিলোঁ।

    I read the new book in the morning.

    -িছিলোঁ goes with মই.

  2. তুমি মোক বিচাৰিছিলা নেকি?

    Did you look for me?

    -িছিলা goes with তুমি.

  3. মোৰ দেউতাই ভ্ৰমণ কৰিছিল।

    My father used to travel.

    -িছিল can tell about a habit in the past.

  4. তেওঁ যোৰহাটত এখন চিঠি লিখিছিল।

    He wrote a letter in Jorhat.

    লিখিছিল tells what a person had done.

  5. মোৰ মা-দেউতা গাঁৱত থাকিছিল।

    My parents lived in a village.

    থাকিছিল says what used to be so.

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কৰিছিলোঁ / কৰিছিলা / কৰিছিলLevel 3Past Perfect Endings

Learn This First

The past perfect adds -ছিল, which is the past of আছ, to the perfect, so learners need both first.