past tense
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past tense
noun past tenses
- A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time). This is a report on a study of the use of the past tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project.
verb past tenses · past tensing · past tensed
- To to end the life of something; to kill.
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noun grammatical form
| Español | tiempo pasado, pretérito |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 과거시제 gwageosije, 과거형 gwageohyeong |
| 日本語 | 過去時制 kako jisei, 過去形 kakokei |
| 中文 | 過去時態 /过去时态 guòqù shítài, 過去式 /过去式 guòqù shì, 過去時 /过去时 guòqùshí, 過去式 /过去式 guòqùshì |
| हिन्दी | भूतकाल bhūtkāl, भूत काल bhūt kāl, माज़ी māzī |
| Português | pretérito, passado |
| Français | passé |
| Deutsch | Vergangenheit, Präteritum |
| Italiano | passato |
| Ελληνικά | αόριστος aóristos |
| Română | timp trecut |
| Русский | проше́дшее вре́мя prošédšeje vrémja |
| Tiếng Việt | thời quá khứ, thì quá khứ |
| العربية | مَاضٍ māḍin, الْمَاضِي al-māḍī, فِعْل مَاضٍ fiʕl māḍin, الْفِعْل الْمَاضِي al-fiʕl al-māḍī |
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@misc{past_tense_2026,
title = {past tense},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/past%20tense},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
