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Past tense

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To to end the life of something; to kill. transitive

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