- The
preterite or
preterit (/ˈprɛtərɪt/ PRET-ər-it;
abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a
grammatical tense or verb form
serving to
denote events that took place...
- tenses:
present (also
conveying ****ure meaning) and past (sometimes
called "
preterite" and
conveying the
meaning of all of the
following English forms: "I did...
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preterite: gaf; English: infinitive: (to) give,
preterite: gave; German: infinitive: geben,
preterite: gab; Icelandic: infinitive: gefa,
preterite: gaf;...
- lack of a
preterite (see its
etymology below)
means that it
neither p****es nor
fails one of the
criteria Even for
lexical verbs,
preterite forms have...
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paralepsis – or
occupatio or occultatio, and
known also as praeteritio,
preterition, or pa****pesis (παρασιώπησις). As a
rhetorical device,
apophasis can...
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English has two
primary tenses, past (
preterite) and non-past. The
preterite is
inflected by
using the
preterite form of the verb,
which for the regular...
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vowels of the
singular and
plural preterite forms. The new
uniform preterite could be
based on the
vowel of the old
preterite singular, on the old plural,...
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often conveys reported speech;
subjunctive plus
preterite marks the
conditional state; and the
preterite alone shows either plain indicative (in the past)...
- verb
except be, the
preterite (simple past tense) of go is not
etymologically related to its infinitive. Instead, the
preterite of go, went, descends...
- Aspect:
perfective or
imperfective (distinguished only in the past
tense as
preterite and imperfect) Voice:
active or p****ive The
modern Spanish verb paradigm...
