| To refer the recent Past: | |
| She has had a good news | La an tno vmi nuz |
| To use the verb zo: | |
| She has just arrived | La zo ygo |
| I have just seen it | Y zo bo |
| We have just known the sale | Ns zo sao bipa |
| To refer facts that concluded: | |
| I lived five years in Mexico | Y biox zin anu México |
| To use adverbs of time: | |
| Yesterday | Yer |
| The day before yesterday | Anyer |
| Last night | Anox |
| Passed Monday | Yun an |
| Last week | Sma an |
| Last month | Sem an |
| The last year | Anu an |
| One month ago | Fao sem |
| Two years ago | Fao du anu |
| In 2001 | B 1996 |
| To use the verb fao: | |
| He lived there five years ago | L biox lui fao zin anu |
| To describe things and people in the past: | |
| They were strange | Ls an so rari |
| There were two beds | An ayo du lita |
| To ask: | |
| What were you doing? | K t an fao? |
| Where were you when it happened? | Dn t so kd ca? |










