Estonian: past tenses

[jonquiliser]

Tere,

I would like to know how to form the past tenses of verbs:

[to be]
was/were
has/have been
had been


Aitäh!

 

[halfminded]

Tere,

I would like to know how to form the past tenses of verbs:

[to be]
was/were
has/have been
had been


Aitäh!

I`ll try my best with explanation, but as I am having a mayor headache and insomnia, then I hope someone will correct the mistakes that I might make.

was/were- past simple, right?
I was- ma olin
you were- sa olid
he/she was- ta oli
we were- me olime
you were- te olite
they were- nad olid
(It seems more simple in English)

has/have been-present perfect, eh?
I have been- ma olen olnud
you have been- sa oled olnud
he/she have been- ta on olnud
we have been- me oleme olnud
you have been- te olete olnud
they have been- nad on olnud
(the first part is like "to be" in present and you just add "olnud")

had been- past perfect..probably..
You take past simple of "To be" (olema) and add "olnud". I start to see some kind of pattern here...
I had been- ma olin olnud
you had been- sa olid olnud
he/she had been- ta oli olnud
we had been- me olime olnud
you had been- te olite olnud
they had been- nad olid olnud

 

[jonquiliser]

Perfect, halfminded! Your answer, I mean; not your headache and insomnia . Have been there myself, not very nice at all :|. Hope it gets better soon!

 

[halfminded]

Hope it gets better soon!

I hope that too...
And by the way... Suslik, did we reply almost at the same time to this topic..as i got a notification that you had replied to this topic, but here isn`t your reply anywhere... Now I am confused...

 

[suslik]

yes we replied at the same time, but your reply came first, so when I was done with mine, yours was already here and I thought that it's pointless to leave mine here, because it was same anyway.

 

[suslik]

and I think I wasn't quick enough, because it takes more time for me, because I have to find letters like õäöü and copy paste them here. I don't have them on my keyboard.