وقتی که رسیدم

Time Clauses with وقتی که

Level 4

وقتی که رسیدم، جلسه شروع شده بود. Arrival supplies the past reference point.

How It Works

Read a completed past event. وقتی که رسیدم، در باز بود reports the state of the door at my arrival. رسیدم identifies the speaker; باز بود describes the door rather than another person’s action.

Read a routine. وقتی که خسته می‌شوم، کمی استراحت می‌کنم connects repeated tiredness and rest. The present می‌ forms fit that repeated pattern, rather than a single future arrival.

Read an anticipated event. وقتی که برسی، با هم غذا می‌خوریم makes the listener’s arrival a future reference. برسی is a subjunctive and the ordinary present main verb can describe the planned meal. Future time need not use خواهم.

Separate time from order. وقتی که رسیدم، جلسه شروع شده بود says the meeting had already started. The past perfect establishes the earlier start. The connector alone does not say whether the two events began together.

Examples (4)

  1. وقتی که رسیدم، در باز بود.

    When I arrived, the door was open.

  2. وقتی که خسته می‌شوم، کمی استراحت می‌کنم.

    When I get tired, I rest a little.

  3. وقتی که برسی، با هم غذا می‌خوریم.

    When you arrive, we will eat together.

  4. وقتی که رسیدم، جلسه شروع شده بود.

    When I arrived, the meeting had already started.

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Learn This First

Use the past perfect to place an event before a past reference. Recognize a subjunctive used for an anticipated event.

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