Past Habits With می‌

Level 3

The he-or-she form has no ending: می‌رفت.

How It Works

Person	Dari	Meaning
من	می‌رفتم	I used to go
تو	می‌رفتی	you used to go
او	می‌رفت	he or she used to go
ما	می‌رفتیم	we used to go
شما	می‌رفتید	you used to go
آن‌ها	می‌رفتند	they used to go

The simple past, رفتم, names one finished event: دیروز به بازار رفتم (I went to the market yesterday). The form with می‌ names something that happened again and again, or something that was true for a while: هر روز به مکتب می‌رفتم (I went to school every day).

Time phrases such as در کودکی (in childhood), آن وقت‌ها (in those days) and هر روز (every day) go with it.

The negative is نمی‌رفتم. The same form also describes an action in progress in the past, which you meet at Level 4.

Examples (5)

در کودکی هر روز به مکتب پیاده می‌رفتم.
As a child I walked to school every day.
می‌رفتم describes a habit in the past.
پدرکلانم هر شب برای ما قصه می‌گفت.
My grandfather told us a story every night.
The he-or-she form می‌گفت has no ending.
در زمستان هر صبح شیرچای می‌خوردیم.
In winter we had milk tea every morning.
می‌خوردیم has the ending ـیم for ما.
جمعه‌ها به میله می‌رفتیم.
We used to go on picnics on Fridays.
جمعه‌ها shows that it happened again and again.
آن وقت‌ها در هرات زندگی می‌کردیم.
In those days we lived in Herat.
می‌کردیم describes how things were.

Common Mistakes

Adding the present ending ـد to the past.
او هر روز به مکتب می‌رفتد.
او هر روز به مکتب می‌رفت.
In the past the he-or-she form has no ending.
Using the wrong person ending.
ما جمعه‌ها به میله می‌رفتم.
ما جمعه‌ها به میله می‌رفتیم.
The ending agrees with the subject: ما takes ـیم.

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Past Habits With می‌Level 3

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The past habit is می‌ plus the past.

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