Past Continuous Tense in Marathi

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Friends, I can understand that “Simple Past Tense” was not that “simple” :) :) 

So to give you some relief here comes “Past Continuous Tense”. It follows good old structure like “future continuous”.

Here verb is formed according to subjective/doer of the action like future Continuous Tense

The sentence structure in Past Continuous Tense is :-

Pronoun	Verb+त (t)	Form of असणे(“asaNe”) in Simple Past  tense
मी ( mI )	चाल(chAl) + त (t)	होतो ( hoto )

                           

                      

Example 1) For I(male) Form of असणे(“asaNe”) in Simple Past Is होतो (hoto)

The full sentence

I was walking --> मी ( mI ) चाल(chAl) + त (t)  होतो (hoto)

--> मी चालत होतो (mI chAlat hoto) 

Example 2) For I(Female) Form of असणे(“asaNe”) in Simple Past Is होते (hote)

The full sentence

I was walking  --> मी ( mI ) चाल(chAl) + त (t)  होते (hote)

--> मी चालत होते (mI chAlat hote) 

Example 3) For They (Plural of She) Form of असणे(“asaNe”) in Simple Past Is होत्या (hotyA

)

The full sentence

They were watching  -->  त्या (tyA)    बघ(bagh) + त (t)    होत्या (hotyA

-->  त्या  बघत होत्या (tyA baghat hotyA) 

So below table summarizes :-

Pronoun in English	Pronoun in Marathi	Suffix for common verbs in Past Continuous	Form of असणे (“asaNe”) in Marathi in Simple Past Tense	Combined suffix for Past Continuous	Transliteration
I (male)	मी	त (t)	होतो	त होतो	t hoto
I (female)	मी		होते	त होते	t hote
we	आम्ही		होतो	त होतो	t hoto
we ( listener including)	आपण		होतो	त होतो	t hoto
You (singular male)	तू		होतास	त होतास	t hotAs
You (singular female)	तू		होतीस	त होतीस	t hotIs
You (plural)	तुम्ही		होता	त होता	t hotA
He / That (m.) / This (m.)	तो / तो / हा		होता	त होता	t hotA
She / That (f.)/ This (f.)	ती / ती / ही		होती	त होती	t hotI
It / That(n.) / This (n.)	ते / ते / हे		होते	त होते	t hote
They (Plural of He)  /Those (m.) /These (m.)	ते / ते / हे		होते	त होते	t hote
They (Plural of She) / Those (f.) / These (f.)	त्या / त्या / ह्या		होत्या	त होत्या	t hotyA
They (Plural of it) / Those (n.) / These (n.)	ती / ती / ही		होती	त होती	t hotI

Examples

I ( male) was doing.                                         मी करत होतो ( mI karat hoto ) 

I (female) was doing.                                       मी करत होते ( mI karat hote ) 

We were dancing.                                           आम्ही/आपण नाचत होतो ( AmhI/ApaN nAchat hoto ) 

You (male) were crying.                                  तू रडत होतास ( tU raDat hotAs ) 

You (female) were crying .                              तू रडत होतीस ( tU raDat hotIs ) 

You (Plural) were walking                                 तुम्ही चालत होता ( tumhI chAlat hotA ) 

He was walking.                                             तो चालत होता ( to chAlat hotA ) 

She was speaking.                                          ती बोलत होती ( tI bolat hotI ) 

It was moving.                                                ते हलत होते ( te halat hote) 

They(Plural of he) were dancing.                     ते नाचत होते ( te nAchat hote) 

They(Plural of She) were dancing.                   त्या नाचत होत्या ( tyA nAchat hotyA ) 

They(Plural of it) were dancing.                       ती नाचत होती ( tI nAchat hotI  ) 


Listen examples online at
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Exercise: Try creating sentences with different verbs using above rules. Crosscheck them by creating same by “verb forms” feature on http://learnmarathiwithkaushik.com/


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