what is the past tense of "I beat him" - here beat refers to striking a person [closed]

Lets say I am beating a person continuously, this is a present participle. What do I say when I have to convey that I have been beating him in the past - "I beat him badly" ?? How do I pronounce it ?

If you are conveying that you have previously beat him, you would say:

I beat him.

If you want to convey that you were actively beating him for a length of time, say:

I was beating him.

The present tense of beat is "beat," and the past tense of beat is also "beat." All usages of this word are pronounced the same way:

bēt (beet)

Also, natural English speakers would more often use the phrase "beat up," rather than "beat" alone, because "beat" could be used for its second definition of:

defeat (someone) in a game, competition, election, or commercial venture

To use this phrase, you would instead say either

I beat him up.

Or

I was beating him up.

Adding to the already present answer, if you are talking about a length of time that is entirely in the past and it happened customarily, in idiomatic English, you could also use (or add) would to express that:

I would beat him [up] [often, regularly, etc]

and

I would be beating him [up] often [as part of this toxic relationship, whatever]

ETA: The would would, then, often be abbreviated to "I'd". Mostly so in speaking, could also happen in writing depending on context and style.