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noun - a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
PRETERITE - The preterite (; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past....
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| That's enough to make one tense in the past |
| That's enough to make Peter tire and be tense |
| Was tense |
| That's for the past 5 down, it seems |
| Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3 |
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| a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense |
| Of, relating to, or being the verb tense that describes a past action or state. |
| The verb form expressing or describing a past action or condition. |
| A verb in the preterite form. |
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The preterite (; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past. In general, it combines the perfective aspect (event viewed as a single whole; it is not to be confused with the similarly named perfect) with the past tense, and may thus also be termed the perfective past. In grammars of particular languages the preterite is sometimes called the past historic, or (particularly in the Greek grammatical tradition) the aorist. * When the term "preterite" is used in relation to specific languages it may not correspond precisely to this definition. In English it can be used to refer to the simple past verb form, which sometimes (but not always) expresses perfective aspect. The case of German is similar: the Präteritum is the simple (non-compound) past tense, which does not always imply perfective aspect, and is anyway often replaced by the Perfekt (compound past) even in perfective past meanings. * Preterite may |