I was hungry ?

[sodapple]

こんにちは！皆さん；
Konnichiwa! Minna san:

Well to say I am hungry you say お腹が空いた (onaka ga suita) but how to say I was hungry お腹が空く？(onaka ga suku?)

Thanks a lot！
ありがとうございます！

[WalterWills]

Good question!

I think it would be:

お腹が空いていました

I searched those words on Google and there were over 2 million hits, so that's probably a good sign that it's often used, although:

まだお腹が空いていました

...means "I'm still hungry" I think.

[jkid]

Space ALC gives the follow as "were/was hungry"

おなかがペコペコになったところで.

I do not want to attempt a breakdown of the grammar here because unfortunately I don't think I'll get it right as I've never heard this used before. A word of caution that this string only returned 22,000 hits so it doesn't seem to be used often.

[hatch_jp]

I was hungry. = お腹が空いていた。

Another topic;
思い出した　( I remember it.) has both the present and past tense.
You have to infer the tense from other words or phrase.