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lesson 123 · grammar + 8 cards

doing vs done · vid v rabi

aspect in context

At A2 you met aspect pairs. Now the harder skill: choosing the right one by what you mean — an ongoing activity, or a single finished event. The past tense forces the choice. About seven minutes.

⏱️ ≈7 min🔥 warm-up → 🎯 grammar → 📝 practice → ⚡ quick → 🃏 cards
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warm-up

· ogrevanje — the 10-second version
two hours of reading, or one book finished?
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grammar

· learn the rule
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doing vs done

· vid v rabi
two hours of reading, or one book finished?
In the past, the imperfective describes an activity — ongoing, repeated, or background: Včeraj sem bral knjigo. (Yesterday I was reading a book.) The perfective describes one whole, finished event: Včeraj sem prebral knjigo. (Yesterday I read a book — all of it.) Signposts: duration and habit (dve uri, vsak dan, pogosto) call for the imperfective; a single completed result (nenadoma, končno, pravkar) calls for the perfective.
Dve uri sem se učil.I studied for two hours.duration → imperfective
Končno sem se naučil.I finally learned it.result → perfective
Vsak dan sem kuhal.I cooked every day.habit → imperfective
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practice

· ongoing or completed?0 ✓
📖Dve uri sem ___ knjigo. 💡 bral
I read a book for two hours.
✓ bral — duration → imperfective bral
📕Včeraj sem ___ celo knjigo. 💡 prebral
Yesterday I read a whole book.
✓ prebral — one whole, finished → perfective
🍲Vsak dan sem ___ kosilo. 💡 kuhal
Every day I cooked lunch.
✓ kuhal — habit → imperfective
👨‍🍳Danes sem ___ odlično kosilo. 💡 skuhal
Today I cooked an excellent lunch.
✓ skuhal — one finished result → perfective
✍️Ko sem bil mlad, sem pogosto ___. 💡 pisal
When I was young I often wrote.
✓ pisal — repeated → imperfective
✉️Pravkar sem ___ pismo. 💡 napisal
I've just written a letter.
✓ napisal — just completed → perfective
🌧️Cel dan je ___ dež. 💡 padal
It rained all day.
✓ padal — duration → imperfective
🥛Nenadoma je ___ kozarec. 💡 padel
Suddenly the glass fell.
✓ padel — sudden single event → perfective
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quick practice

· fast recall0 ✓
fast recall — tap the match.
📖was reading → ? 💡 bral
✓ bral — duration → imperfective bral
📕read (finished) → ? 💡 prebral
✓ prebral — one whole, finished → perfective
🍲was cooking → ? 💡 kuhal
✓ kuhal — habit → imperfective
👨‍🍳cooked (finished) → ? 💡 skuhal
✓ skuhal — one finished result → perfective
✍️used to write → ? 💡 pisal
✓ pisal — repeated → imperfective
✉️wrote (finished) → ? 💡 napisal
✓ napisal — just completed → perfective
🌧️was falling → ? 💡 padal
✓ padal — duration → imperfective
🥛fell → ? 💡 padel
✓ padel — sudden single event → perfective
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unscramble

· rebuild the Slovene word
the letters are jumbled — type the correct Slovene word
a r b l was reading
r b a l r p e read (finished)
h a k u l was cooking
k a h l u s cooked (finished)
s i l a p used to write
a s a p i l n wrote (finished)
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memory match

· pair Slovene with English0 pairs
tap two cards to find a matching pair — clear the board
04

cards

· drill the words
tap a card to flip · 8 cards
📖
bral
brahl
was reading
📕
prebral
preh-BRAHL
read (finished)
🍲
kuhal
KOO-hahl
was cooking
👨‍🍳
skuhal
SKOO-hahl
cooked (finished)
✍️
pisal
PEE-sahl
used to write
✉️
napisal
nah-PEE-sahl
wrote (finished)
🌧️
padal
PAH-dahl
was falling
🥛
padel
PAH-dehl
fell
lesson complete! 🎉
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