No. 455 in Persian
داشتیم
"داشتیم" means "we had" in English.
In a sentence
ما داشتیم به مدرسه میرفتیم.
We were going to school.
In this sentence, "داشتیم" is used as part of the past continuous tense to indicate an ongoing action in the past.
داشتیم دربارهی برنامهی سفر حرف میزدیم.
We were talking about the travel plans.
Here, "داشتیم" conveys an ongoing conversation in the past, again as part of the past continuous tense.
اگر وقت بیشتری داشتیم، گروهی بیرون میرفتیم.
If we had more time, we would go out as a group.
In this case, "داشتیم" is used to express a hypothetical situation, involving an unreal past condition.
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