- In
Germanic languages, the term "
preterite" is
sometimes used for the past tense. The
majority of English's
preterites (often
called simple past or just...
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otherwise mark a
strong preterite.
Konnte "could, was able to" (
preterite)
displays the
dental suffix of the weak
preterites.
According to one "widely-held...
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characterised by
preterites formed by
appending the
suffixes -da or -ta,
parallel to past
participles formed with -þ / -t.
Strong verbs form
preterites by ablaut...
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refer to:
Germanic weak verb,
verbs in
Germanic languages that form
their preterites and past
participles by
means of a
dental suffix Weak inflection, a system...
- The t-
preterite The root
aorist The s-, t-, and root
aorist preterites take Indo-European
secondary endings,
while the
reduplicated suffix preterite took...
- may be used here in its role of the
preterite form of can (if I
could speak French). However, all the
modal preterites can be used in such
clauses with certain...
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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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homogeneity of
vowel pattern:
break broke broken but
several verbs have
archaic preterites that
preserve the "a" of
Middle English (bare, brake, gat, sware, tare...
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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)...
