गेल छलाह / देखने छलहुँ

Had Done

Level 3Sounds Like gēla chalāha ā dēkhanē chalahum̐

Put the past of "to be" after the perfect form to say that something was already done.

How It Works

The pattern is the perfect stem plus the past of "to be".

Subject	Moving verb	Object verb
हम, अहाँ	गेल छलहुँ	देखने छलहुँ
तोँ	गेल छलह	देखने छलह
ओ (respected man)	गेल छलाह	देखने छलाह
ओ (respected woman)	गेल छलीह	देखने छलीह
ओ (plain)	गेल छल	देखने छल

It looks back from another moment in the past, usually named in the same sentence or clear from the talk: हम अएलहुँ तखन ओ गेल छलाह (When I came, he had already gone).

पहिने (before, earlier) often goes with it. Without पहिने the sentence is still correct.

Do not mix this up with the habit form -ैत छलहुँ, which means "used to". Here the -ल or -ने form comes first, not -ैत.

Examples (5)

हम ई फिल्म पहिने देखने छलहुँ।
I had seen this film before.
देखने छलहुँ: -ने form plus छलहुँ.
हम अएलहुँ तखन ओ गेल छलाह।
When I came, he had already gone.
गेल छलाह: a respected man, moving verb.
माय भोरे सभ काज कएने छलीह।
Mother had done all the work in the morning.
कएने छलीह: a respected woman, object verb.
बउआ पहिने कहियो हाथी नहि देखने छल।
The little boy had never seen an elephant before.
देखने छल: a plain subject takes छल.
अहाँ पहिने ओतय गेल छलहुँ?
Had you gone there before?
गेल छलहुँ: the same form for अहाँ and हम.

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गेल छलाह / देखने छलहुँLevel 3Had Done

Learn This First

The pluperfect changes the last word of the two perfects into its past form.

देखने छीHave Done: The Perfect with -ने
Know देखने छी and गेल छथि, because देखने छलहुँ and गेल छलाह change only the last word to its past form.
Level 3

Words in This Pattern

छलहुँछलहछलाहछलीहछलगेल

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