Verb conjugation: past

The past tense is — as the name implies — broadly equivalent to the English past tense, and specifies an action which was taken in the past. For example:

わたしはりんごをべた。
I ate an apple.

Conjugation table
KindPlainConjugated
1-dan
5-dan, すころころした
5-dan, ぶんだ
5-dan, ぐおよおよいだ
5-dan, くいた
5-dan, むんだ
5-dan, ぬんだ
5-dan, るはしはしった
5-dan, つった
5-dan, う使つか使つかった
irregularった
irregular
irregular
する
した
Examples
I thought you wouldn't come.
I knew you would come.
I've never seen that.
Have you seen this before?
I thought that was the case.
I thought that might be the case.
I haven't seen anything like that.
I've never seen it like that before.
Have you ever done it?
Have you ever been to a singles bar?
I went, too.
I've already done it.
I have done it already.
Ah, I have been here before!
Have you ever been here before?
Is that why you came here?
That's not why I came here.
I think he understood me.
That's what she said.
I understood what she said.
She looked at me.
It was her that told me.
I've heard this before.
I've heard that before.
I heard that she came here.
I haven't heard it before.
What happened here?
Hey, what happened?
Tell me what you saw.
I know what I said.
I've seen this before.
Have I told you this before?
It happened before.
This is what I thought.
I don't know. I've never thought about it.
That's not what I meant to say.
This is what he said.
What do you think he did?
Do you know what he said?
I don't know if he came or not.
I didn't understand what he said.
He did that, didn't he?
He has left already.
He had already gone.
If he had known about it, he would have come.
He gave it to me.
He did what he had been told.
He saw it, too.
I saw him.
I think he did it.
I think he has done it.
I thought he would come.
I did what I could.
He came here again.
He did it not for me but for himself.
I don't know what happened to him.
What did you do there?
Were you there?
Did you go there?
She came out of there.
I went there because I wanted to.
I told you not to do that.
I saw it with my own two eyes.
Does he know what you did?
What you say is true.
What you said is not true.
The story turned out to be true.
I thought it was true.
It turned out to be true.
It's true that he said that.
What he said turned out to be true.
What he said proved true.
What he said was not true.
His story turned out to be true.
She did come here.
Did you tell the truth?
So he went in.
I tried.
I'm just saying!
"Did you say something?" "What do you think I said?"
Was there something you wanted to say?
What did you use this for?
I got it for free.
I wondered if her story was true.
What did you do today?
He was otherwise than I thought.
You saw what happened, didn't you?
He may have said so.
He may have seen it.
She may have said so.
You came into my room.
You came out of the room.
Mayuko came out of the room.
Mayuko entered the room.
He came into the room.
He entered my room.
He came into my room.
He entered his room.
He left the room.
He came out of the room.
He entered the room.
I saw her leaving the room.
I saw her enter the room.
She came out of the room.
She came into the room.
I saw the man enter the room.
I saw him enter the room.
What did you see?
What have you come here for?
What did I ever do to you?
That's why I came here.
Did you say 13 or 30?
She asked me whether I was all right.
Were you home?
I saw him enter the house.
He was at home.
She left home just now.
I was at home.
I made this.
I saw the figure of a man.
I couldn't help laughing when I heard that story.
He laughed.
I laughed.
I was the only one who laughed.
I couldn't help but laugh when I saw it.
Those were his actual words.
That almost made me laugh.
Not knowing what to do, I asked him for advice.
Have you ever been a teacher?
I don't understand what the teacher said.
I could not help laughing when I saw him.
I'm not sure anymore.
I didn't quite make out what he said.
I still don't really understand what he said.
You really did a good job.
Do you think he is dead?
I really want to die already.
She died.
I thought I was going to die.
I was afraid he might die.
Everyone went there, didn't they?
Did you just see something?
Something may have happened to him.
She said something to him.
Was there something you wanted to ask me?
I thought I saw something.
It's none of your business.
Where were you?
I didn't know where it came from.
Where did you hear that?
Where did that come from?
Where did you hear that story?
Where did you see him?
Where were you today?
Do you know where he went?
I don't know where he went.
I just figured out where she is.
Where has she gone?
She asked me where to go.
I didn't know where he came from.
The "man" that you saw is actually a woman.
He went along with her.
She went with him.
I know the person that you came with.
He continued doing it.
He kept on laughing at me.
Have you ever eaten sea urchin?
Have you ever eaten chocolate-covered popcorn?
What did you eat?
He ate all of it.
She kept on talking while eating.
Is that why you called me here?
Not knowing what to do, I called her.
Did you just call me?
He called me Ichiro.
"What did you say?" "What do you think I said?"
What? What did you say?
Wait. What did you just say?
What did you just say?
What did she say?
I gathered from her words that she liked him.
I like going to places I haven't been to before.
Please tell me what happened to him.
Did you try talking to her?
I told him what I had told you.
I waited for her to speak.
Was there really a need to say that?
He gave me what I needed.
He has just come back.
It was here that I saw her.
She was talking all the time.
I did that for you.
What made you think so?
How did you know we were here?
Why did you come here?
Why were you there?
I wonder why he did that.
If he had known, he might have come earlier.
I was at home all day today.
I came here to meet you.