In Hebrew, the simple past and present perfect tenses are used to indicate actions that have happened at a specific time in the past or a general period in the past up to now. The primary difference between the two comes down to specificity in time. The simple past tense is used to talk about completed actions in a time before now, usually used with a time phrase. The present perfect tense is a little complicated – it’s used for actions that happened in the past but have a connection to the present.

Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks with the correct simple past tense forms of the verb.

Exercise 2: Fill in the blanks with the correct present perfect tense forms of the verb.