The beauty of all Indian languages is that they can all be translated in place. Look how the sentence above would read if translated literally to English:
(Now, yesterday) you what done?
In Kannada,
(Eega, nenne), neenu Enu maaDide?
So, the translation from one Indian language to another (atleast in this case) is straightforward.
This completes the tense trilogy. Enu maaD-taa idya was present, Enu maaD-tiya is future, and maaD-ide, the past.
Exercise: can you map the various verbs from the other tenses found in the previous posts to derive their past tenses?
Hint: there are two possible versions of the answer - for example, "Main aa gaya tha" and "Main aa raha tha" (the action, and the reminscing). Now, lets look at them again:
Hindi
Main aa gaya tha
Kannada
Naanu bandu idde
If you remember, bandu+idde = bandidde. So:
Naanu bandidde
Hindi
Main aa raha tha
Kannada
Naanu bartaa idde
Remove the final vowel from the verb as in the previous example, and join the "idde" - you get bartaa+idde = bartidde.
Naanu bartidde.
Simple, isnt it? Now, can you give it a try?
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