Meaning of past tense | Babel Free
Definitions
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).
Equivalents
བོད་སྐད
འདས་པ
Čeština
minulý čas
Ελληνικά
αόριστος
Eesti
minevik
Français
passé
Gàidhlig
tràth caithte
Galego
pasado
ગુજરાતી
ભૂતકાળ
Magyar
múlt idő
Bahasa Indonesia
kala lampau
Íslenska
þátíð
Italiano
passato
ქართული
ნამყო
Қазақша
өткен шақ
ខ្មែរ
អតីតកាល
Kurdî
mazî
Latina
praeteritum
Македонски
минато време
Монгол
өнгөрсөн цаг
Bahasa Melayu
masa lampau
Nederlands
verleden tijd
Polski
czas przeszły
Русский
прошедшее время
සිංහල
අයු කල්
Slovenščina
preteklik
Svenska
imperfekt
தமிழ்
இறந்தகாலம்
తెలుగు
భూతకాలము
ไทย
อดีตกาล
Tagalog
naganap
اردو
ماضی
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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