Past tense

Synonyms for "past tense" (15 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Noun(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
narrative pastpast formpast narrationpast verb formpreterit

Related words (7)

Adjective(1 words)
spanish past
Verb(1 words)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries
grammatical categorynarrative modestorytelling devicetenseverb formverb inflectionverb tense

More specific

9 entries
first person pastirregular pastomniscient pastpast participlepast perfectpast progressiveregular pastsimple pastthird person past

Collocations

10 entries
change to past tenseirregular pastpast perfectpast progressivepast tense markerpast tense verbregular pastsimple pastsimple past tenseuse past tense

Inflections

3 entries
more past tensemost past tensepast tenses

Derivations

3 entries
pastpast formpreterite

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

Some members of the [Mongolic language] family have three or more different affixes which seem to be markers of the past tense, so that in Khalkha, for example, irev, irjee, irlee, and irsen all can translate, and be translated by, the English past tense verb came.

Source: wiktionary