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past tense

noun

Definitions

  1. A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence,…

    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.
    • As you have studied Spanish, you have probably had the feeling that there are just too many past tenses.

  2. To to end the life of something

    To to end the life of something; to kill.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for past tense. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA