Past Tense
While it's great to be able to express what is happening right now, a lot of times we will want to talk about what happened earlier. This is were the past tense comes into play.
As with the present tense, there is no difference between I drew and I was drawing. Both are Jag ritade.
Let's look at how we do this in Swedish.
r-verbs
Present tense Past Tense English
tror trodde believed, was/were believing
bor bodde lived, was/were living
klär klädde dressed, was/were dressing
Finally among the regular verbs, we have the short regular r-verbs. Here we simply add -dde, and we're done with them.