For fun- how does your little one express past tense?

[hrsmom]

I love how a lot of little kids will use a certain term to indicate past tense. My daughter has been using "last day" which I guess is a cross between yesterday and last night. So cute!

[SpuglyRoo]

When my sister was younger (she's seven now) she always said lasterday, so similar to your DD. 

[physmom]

DD doesn't really use the past tense regularly yet but she will use it for certain irregular verbs. For some reason she actually does this a lot better in her second language rather than in English. I think in English she'll just use "I saw" and that's about it. If she's talking about the past she normally use the -ing form without a verb i.e. "Susy crying" instead of Susy was crying. She's obsessed with the idea of time but definitely doesn't get it yet.

[Summersquash]

DD has no particular expression for yesterday.  She does kind of understand the days of the week because she knows her little activities occur on Wednesdays and Thursdays.  So we frequently talk about what day it is and what we do that day.  

She does use some past tense, but she still has her pronouns backwards.  So she says things like "You fell down outside.  You got a big boo-boo.  You cried.  You went 'WAH!'"  But she doesn't indicate whether that happened yesterday, last week, or a long time ago.

[Agatha_Ann]

I have kids before and after this cutie stage right now, but I do remember my DD was yesterday and next week. Yesterday was anytime in the past (an hour ago or a year ago) and likewise with next week and the future. DS2 would always ask, "Can we such and such tomorrow?" and if I told him we couldn't tomorrow, he would get mad and say, "I knoooooow, I mean the next tomorrow!"

I also have a nephew who the future is "next Tuesday" and the past is "last Friday"

Cute thread!

[big-mama]

DS doesn't have a particular word for yesterday but if it isn't happening today its "Saturday".  Future, past, doesn't matter.  It all happens on Saturday. 

For past tense verbs, everything has an ed on it at first but after hearing it modeled correctly, he will change to the correct way.  "Runned" for example lol. 

[hrsmom]

I love these!

The other day she woke up and said "Mom get up! It's 20 to 4!!". It was more like 7:00 but I thought that was cute.

I remember a friend had a little brother who said "last week" I think it was and I thought it was adorable.

[mckittre]

My 23 month old gets most past tense right, with some wrong ones like "throwed" in there.  His pronouns are all backwards, though.  And although he doesn't have specific words for future or past days, when he wants to keep doing something or do it for a long time, he says he wants to do it for "More than two weeks!"  He picked that phrase up from the very hungry caterpillar book.