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...

The simple past, past simple, or past indefinite, in English equivalent to the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. It is...

Past Tense is a novel by British writer Lee Child. It is the twenty-third book in the Jack Reacher series. Delacorte Press initially released the book...

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...

"Past Tense" is a two-part episode from the third season of science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 57th and 58th episodes overall...

up past tense in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past. Past Tense may...

imagine time as a line on which the past tense, the present and the future tense are positioned. The term present tense is usually used in descriptions of...

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 past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or...

singular The past tense or preterite (went, wrote, climbed) The past participle (gone, written, climbed) – identical to the past tense in the case of...

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...

understanding of the speaker's meaning: Tense—the position of the state or action in time, that is, whether it is in the past, present or future. Aspect—the extension...

Bengali has four simple tenses: the present tense, the past tense, the conditional or habitual past tense, and the future tense. These combine with mood...

in the past tense (were), but a present participle expresses the progressive aspect (be standing). The second sentence is in the future tense (will),...

singular present tense form ending in -s, a past tense (also called preterite), a past participle (which may be the same as the past tense), and a form ending...

The indicative has a past and non-past tense. The conditional has a non-past tense and a past form, made up of the past tense indicative as the finite...

simple forms can also be categorized into four tenses (future, present, past, and future-of-the-past), or into two aspects (perfective and imperfective)...

of the subject. The past participle (also known as the "active participle" or "l-participle") is used for forming the past tense and the conditionals...

events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened. The category of "prophetic perfect" was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

from the 3rd person of the Past tense. E.g. dirbau = 'I worked', norėjai = 'You wanted', skaitėme = 'We read' (past tense) In the -ė conjugation type...

In grammar, a future tense (abbreviated FUT) is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected...

This is followed by the simple past tense (preterite), and then the past participle. If there are irregular present tense forms (see below), these are given...

for example, the perfective–imperfective distinction is marked in the past tense, by the division between preterites and imperfects. Explicit consideration...