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 future meaning) and past (sometimes called "preterite" and conveying the meaning of all of the following English forms: "I did...

lack of a preterite (see its etymology below) means that it neither passes nor fails one of the criteria Even for lexical verbs, preterite forms have...

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 passive The modern Spanish verb paradigm...

upon the formation of the preterite: strong and weak. Strong verbs exhibit an alternation of the stem vowel in the preterite and past participle (called...

tenses in Komi which use a preterite form of the main verb and a preterite form of the auxiliary verb 'to be'. The Komi preterite III makes use of the main...

preterite: gaf; English: infinitive: (to) give, preterite: gave; German: infinitive: geben, preterite: gab; Icelandic: infinitive: gefa, preterite: gaf;...

All e-verbs (with -de in preterite) and j-verbs get the following inflections: All other e-verbs (those with -te in preterite) get the following inflections:...

paralepsis – or occupatio or occultatio, and known also as praeteritio, preterition, or parasiopesis (παρασιώπησις). As a rhetorical device, apophasis can...

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,...

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...

verbs, the principal parts of all other English verbs are the infinitive, preterite and past participle. All forms of these English verbs can be derived from...

or three major preterite formations in Proto-Celtic, plus another moribund type. The s-preterite The reduplicated suffixless preterite (originating from...

singular preterite tense form comí ("I ate"); the single suffix -í represents both the features of first-person singular agreement and preterite tense,...

and Finnish, also have a past tense. In English, the past tense (or preterite) is one of the inflected forms of a verb. The past tense of regular verbs...

stem: forms the future Preterite active stem: forms the active preterite forms Preterite passive stem: forms the passive preterite forms Reduplication in...

passive* Six morphological forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods—present, preterite, imperfect, pluperfect, future, and conditional. Three (or four) moods—indicative...

case of Swedish, the preterite will have a distinct vowel pattern in comparison to the past participle, specifically the preterite. An example of this...

optative and preterite endings for the imperfect, while Tocharian B uses the same endings for both, which are a combination of preterite and unique endings...

as irregularities. The examples are several forms of otherwise regular preterites: Stress mark on stressed i after a, e or o: caer > caímos (-caer), leer...

optative and preterite endings for the imperfect, while Tocharian B uses the same endings for both, which are a combination of preterite and unique endings...

second preterite have identical stems, usually in io (occ. ē), and the infinitive and the past participle also have the same stem. The first preterite stem...

often conveys reported speech; subjunctive plus preterite marks the conditional state; and the preterite alone shows either plain indicative (in the past)...

This article uses the IPA to transcribe Irish. Readers familiar with other conventions may wish to see Help:IPA/Irish for a comparison of the IPA system...

relevant Wiktionary entry. This is followed by the simple past tense (preterite), and then the past participle. If there are irregular present tense forms...

single word, rather than being compound verbs) are the preterite and the imperfect. The preterite is used to express actions or events that took place in...

Occitan -atz, -etz, -itz. One feature of Catalan is the periphrastic preterite tense for referring to the remote past, which is constructed with characteristic...

In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle. The other inflected parts of the verb – the third...

Gilaki (گیلٚکي زٚوؤن romanized: Gilɵki Zɵvon) is an Iranian language belonging to the Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern branch, spoken in south of Caspian...