Meaning of tense | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
   uncountable
2. time
3. An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
   countable
4. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time
5. A grammatical aspect.
   countable, proscribed
6. A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
   countable, proscribed
7. weather (the short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)

Equivalents

Examples

“Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.”

“English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.”

“In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]”

“The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.”

“The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.”

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