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The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past. Examples of verbs in the past tense include the English verbs sang, went and washed. Most languages have a past tense, with some having several types in order to indicate how far back the action took place. Some languages have a compound past tense which uses auxiliary verbs as well as an imperfect tense which expresses continuous or repetitive events or actions. Some languages inflect the verb, which changes the ending to indicate the past tense, while non-inflected languages may use other words meaning, for example, "yesterday" or "last week" to indicate that something took place in the past.
The pasttense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past. Examples of verbs in the pasttense include the English...
The simple past, past simple, or past indefinite, in English equivalent to the preterite, is the basic form of the pasttense in Modern English. It is...
The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and nonpast...
PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish...
plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, is a type of verb form, generally treated as a grammatical tense in certain languages, relating...
plural in form. Verbs are conjugated to show tenses, of which there are two: past and present (or non-past) which is used for the present and the future...
imperfect (abbreviated IMPERF) is a verb form that combines pasttense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or...
perfect tense, so that: Er sagte: "Ich war da." becomes Er sagte, er sei da gewesen. The KII or past subjunctive is used to form the conditional tense and...
Bengali has four simple tenses: the present tense, the pasttense, the conditional or habitual pasttense, and the future tense. These combine with mood...
singular present tense form ending in -s, a pasttense (also called preterite), a past participle (which may be the same as the pasttense), and a form ending...
simple forms can also be categorized into four tenses (future, present, past, and future-of-the-past), or into two aspects (perfective and imperfective)...
in the pasttense (were), but a present participle expresses the progressive aspect (be standing). The second sentence is in the future tense (will),...
of the subject. The past participle (also known as the "active participle" or "l-participle") is used for forming the pasttense and the conditionals...
events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the pasttense as if they had already happened. The category of "prophetic perfect" was...
imagine time as a line on which the pasttense, the present and the future tense are positioned. The term present tense is usually used in descriptions of...
The nonpast tense (also spelled non-past) (abbreviated NPST) is a grammatical tense that distinguishes an action as taking place in times present or future...
are fewer tenses in Persian than in English. There are about ten tenses in all. The greatest variety is shown in tenses referring to past events. A series...
some past time, someone spoke a sentence in a particular tense (say the present tense), and that act of speaking is now being reported, the tense used...
This is followed by the simple pasttense (preterite), and then the past participle. If there are irregular present tense forms (see below), these are given...
perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences. The term is...
plural). In the indicative mood there are seven tenses: present, imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past simple), perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect...
"she walked" refers to a girl who was walking before now (pasttense). The past continuous tense refers to actions that continued for a period of time, as...
the regular pasttense suffix of the first conjugation. For instance, dirb·ti ("to work", a first-conjugation verb), whose plain pasttense is dirb·au...
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