Can someone kindly explain why and how すぎる is conjugated to すぎた in this sentence?

Japanese
#1

アイスクリームを食べすぎたからお腹が痛い

trying to understand how conjugation works for this sentence from すぎる to すぎた

help is very much appreciated

thank you!

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#2

It’s a Ru verb, which means for its causal past tense you drop the る and add a た.

You ate too much ice-cream, so your stomach hurts. The first part of the sentence is in past tense.

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#3

Hi there,

It’s working in the past tense. Since you ate too much icecream (have done, past tense), your stomach hurts now. すぎる-> present tense (eating too much ice cream) becomes すぎた → past tense (ate).

Hope that helps.

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#4

thank you all for the fast replies

it makes sense now

you guys are awesome!

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