Verb Tenses: Grammar Review

This is a table of all the verb tenses that have been covered on the blog (with a few exceptions which I will post about later.) This list will be edited as I learn more ways to express ideas using verbs. Dashes indicate ideas that have not been covered yet or ideas that do not exist in Sinhala.

Next week, July 19th, I will be adding a table for the other verb modifications that did not really fit in with these tenses. Hope this is helpful and please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

I apologize for the fact that this table is too large for the blog. It seems that if I try to make the table smaller on my original document, the table becomes larger and takes up the entire space of the blog 😅

I'll definitely be working on getting that fixed!

	Positive	Negative
Simple Present Lesson #3	I eat rice. Mama bath kanawaa. මම බත් කනවා.	I do not eat rice. Mama bath kanne nae. මම බත් කන්නේ නැ.
Simple Past Lesson #3	I ate rice. Mama bath kaeva. මම බත් කෑවා.	I did not eat rice. Mama bath kaeve nae. මම බත් කෑවේ නැ.
Present Continuous	I am eating rice (at the moment). Mama bath kanna. මම බත් කන්න.	-
Past Continuous	-	-
Future: With Certainty (Things you will do/ Things other people said they would do.) Lesson #52	I will eat rice. Mama bath kannam. මම බත් කන්නම්.	-
Future: Without Certainty  “Might” (Things other people will do/ Things other people or yourself might do. Lesson #53	He will eat rice Literally: He might eat rice. Eyaa bath kayi. එයා බත් කයි.	-
When + Action in the present Lesson #18 Lesson #19	When I do eat rice. Mama bath kanakota. මම බත් කනකොට.	When I don’t eat rice. Mama bath kanne nathikota. මම බත් කන්නේ නැතිකොට.
When + Action in the past Lesson #19	When I ate rice. Mama bath kaevahama. මම බත් කෑවහැම.	-
Imperative Lesson #10	Eat rice! Bath kanda. බත් කන්ඩ.	Don’t eat rice! Bath kanda epaa. බත් කන්ඩ එපා.
Invitational Dialogue #1: Grammar Points	Let’s eat rice! Bath kamu. බත් කමු.	-
Conditional Lesson #27	If I eat rice~ Bath kævoth~ බත් කෑවොත්~	If I don’t eat rice~ Bath kanne nætham බත් කන්නේ නැත්නම්
While~ Lesson #22	While I eat rice~ Bath kana gaman. බත් කන ගමන්.	-

Verb Modifications

I can/ cannot eat Lesson #6	Mata kanna bæ මට කන්න බැ  *-ta form of subject pronoun must be used
I want to eat Lesson #7	Mata kanna one *-ta form of subject pronoun must be used
I like eating Lesson #8	Mama kanna aasayi මම කන්න ආසයි
To start eating	Kanna patan ganawaa කන්න පටන් ගන්නවා
To finish eating	Kanna ivaraa කන්න ඉවරා
The rice that I ate Qualifying Nouns with Verbs: Lesson #31	Mama kapu bath. මම කපු බත්
I am planning to eat	Mama kanna hadanne. මම කන්න හදන්නේ