1Pst: There is one grammatically distinct past tense.
| person | singular | plural | |
| 1. | tot-s-ǝm | tot-s-uw | |
| past tense | 2. | tot-s-ǝn | tot-s-ǝn | 
| 3. | tot-ǝs | tot-s-ǝt | 
The verb ‘take’ in indeterminate conjugation (past tense) (based on Kálmán 1976)
In Northern Mansi, the marker of the past tense is -s- (Riese 2001).
