Past Tense

Definition: Past Tense

Past Tense

Noun

1. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Past Tense

Crosswords: Past Tense

Oh, I'm way, way past tense (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Past tense was unintentional. (Barney Miller; writing credit: Danny Arnold)

Past Tense (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Love In The Past Tense (reference)

• Past Tense (reference)

• The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish (Studies in Bilingualism, Vol 22) (reference)

• The Past Tense of Love (Soundings) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Past Tense (reference)

• Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 57: Past Tense, Part 1 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Future Lived in Past Tense (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chinese 

投了票 (past tense of to vote), 嘗 (already, ever, flavor, formerly, indicator of past tense, once, test, to taste). (various references)

Danish

praeteritum, imperfektum, datid. (various references)

Dutch

onvoltooid verleden tijd, imperfectum. (various references)

Finnish

mennyt aika, imperfekti (imperfect). (various references)

French

imparfait. (various references)

German

Praeteritum, vergangenheit (foretime, history, nostalgia, past, pluperfect, yesterdays). (various references)

Greek 

αόριστοσ χρόνοσ. (various references)

Guarani

kuri (immediate past tense marker). (various references)

Hebrew 

עבר (past). (various references)

Hungarian

múlt idő (past). (various references)

Italian

passato (bygone, departed, former, last, mush, old, overpast, passe, past), imperfetto (defective, imperfect). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過去形 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"けい. (various references)

Manx

emshir cheaut, emshir chaie (imperfect tense, perfect tense). (various references)

Pig Latin

astpay ensetay

Romanian

preterit (preterit). (various references)

Scottish

na (all that, greater than that, let not, not, or, q.v., than, that, the, the genitive singular case of the art. before fem.n., the neg.part. before v. beginning with con., the nom. and dat.plur. case of the art. before n. beginning, those which, those who, was longer; na b' = past tense of na 's, what, where they, whom). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prošlo vreme (preterit). (various references)

Spanish

pretérito (preterit, preterite), tiempo pasado (past weather). (various references)

Turkish

geçmiş zaman (Eld, lang syne, past, preterit, preterite). (various references)

Misspellings

"Past Tense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: past tenst. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aptness, entases, estates, neatest, patents, patness, pattens, penates, pesetas, sateens, senates, sensate, septate, septets, tensest.

-3 letters: aptest, aspens, assent, enates, estate, etapes, passee, pastes, patens, patent, pattee, patten, peasen, peases, peseta, sanest, sateen, senate, septet, sestet, sneaps, spates, speans, spense, stanes, stapes, states, steeps, tasset, tastes, teases, tenets, tenses, testae, testes, tsetse.

-4 letters: antes, apses, aspen, asset, eases, easts, eaten, enate, etape, etnas, napes, nates, neaps, neats, neeps, nests, netts, panes, pants, pases, passe, paste, pasts, paten, pates, peans, pease, peats, peens, penes, pests, sanes, sates, seats, seeps, sensa, sense, sente, septa, septs, setae, setts, snaps, sneap, spaes, spans, spate, spats, spean, spent, stane, state, stats, steep, steps, stets, tapes, tasse, taste, tates, tease, teats, teens, tenet, tense, tents, tepas, testa, tests.

-5 letters: anes, ante, ants, apes, apse, asps, ates, ease, east, eats, eses, etas, etna, nape, naps, neap, neat, neep, ness, nest, nets, nett, pane, pans, pant, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, peen, pees, pens, pent, pest, pets, psst, sane, sans, saps, sate, seas, seat, seen, seep, sees, sene, sent, sept, seta, sets, sett, snap, spae, span, spas, spat, stat, step, stet, tans, tape, taps, tass, tate, tats, teas, teat, teen, tees, tens, tent, tepa, test, tets.

+2 letters: patternless, pleasantest, stepparents.

+3 letters: paternosters, transportees.

+4 letters: inspectorates, predestinates, presentations, repristinates, spontaneities, stephanotises, streptokinase, temperateness.

+5 letters: antidepressant, letterspacings, pectinesterase, postadolescent, postdebutantes, preanesthetics, predestinators, stepparentings, streptokinases, subdepartments, superfetations, treponematoses, treponematosis.

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