You went to school ? (f) "ذهبت الى المدرسة ؟"

In this lesson, we are going to learn about the past form/tense. As mentioned before, verbs in Arabic language have three forms: Present, Past and Imperative.
Now we will focus on the past form/tense. Like present form, the verb changes according to the subject. The pattern most verbs follow in the past tense is demonstrated in the following example (notice the letters written in red):

SHareb    shareb   (Drank)
anaa SHareb--to	anaa sharebto    (I drank)
anta SHareb--ta	anta sharebta    (You drank(m.))
ante SHareb--te	ante sharebte    (You drank(f.))
antom SHareb--tom	antom sharebtom    (You drank(pl.))
howa SHareb	howa shareb    (He drank)
heya SHareb--at	heya sharebat    (She drank)
hom SHareb--oo	hom shareboo    (They drank)
naHno SHareb--naa	naHno sharebnaa    (We drank)

There are verbs differing a little from that pattern, but we will focus now on the regular verbs. These irregular verbs will be studied later.
The following verbs follow the same pattern shown above :

akal	akal	Ate
fa3al	faal	Did
DHahab	DHahab	Went
waqaf	waqaf	Stood/Stopped
galas	galas	Sat
takallam	takallam	Talked/Spoke
sakat	sakat	Stopped talking
daras	daras	Studied

There is an important thing to mention here, when the subject is a personal pronoun (I, You, ... etc), it can be omitted because it can be known implicitly from the verb itself ( e.g. in a phrase like "zahabtY ela almadrassah ?", it can be deduced that the phrase is directed to a female from the verb "zahabtY" ). Omitting the subject is valid either in present or in past tense, but in past tense particularly, it's very recommended to omit the subject as almost all Arabic texts do so.

Examples of using verbs in the past tense (note that the subject is omitted in these examples):

1-SHarebt aalqahwat> sharebt al-qahwah ( I drank coffee)

2-DHahabte elE aalmadrasat> DHahabte ela al-madrasah You went to school (f.)

3-waqaftom fee aalSHaare3 waqaftom fee al-shaarea You stood in the street (pl.)

4-galasat 3alE aalkorsee galasat aala al-korsee She sat on the chair

5-akalnaa aaltofaaH akalnaa al-tofaaH We ate apple

That was it with the past form for this lesson, now it is exercise time ;).