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How do you say this in Simplified Chinese (China)? I was a teacher.
I am a teacher.
How do you say this in Simplified Chinese (China)? I was a teacher.
I am a teacher.
I am a teacher.
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Verb in Chinese does not have tenses. Instead, one would add temporal adverbial phrases, e.g., 以前 'before, previously'，曾經 'in the past'.
I am a teacher.
我是个老师。
我在当老师。
I am now a teacher.
我现在是个老师。
我现在在当老师。
I am a teacher [at Darvarh Elementary School].
我在 [达瓦小学] 当老师。
I was [lit. before, previously] a teacher. I am now retired.
我以前是个老师，现在退休了。
I was a teacher two years ago.
两年前我在当老师。
两年前我是个老师。
I had been a teacher [at Darvarh Elementary School] for twenty years.
我 [在达瓦小学] 当了十年老师。
我 [在达瓦小学] 当了十年的老师。
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