"past historic tense" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} past historic tense
  1. (grammar) A tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, and in spoken language primarily when reading narrative or in storytelling, for completed actions in the past or in speaking of the deceased. Categories (topical): Grammar, Tenses Synonyms: past historic, preterite tense Translations (tense): preteriti (Finnish), passé simple [masculine] (French), passato remoto [masculine] (Italian), 単純過去 (tanjun-kako) (note: for French) (Japanese), 遠過去 (en-kako) (note: for Italian) (Japanese), pretérito perfeito (Portuguese), прошедшее историческое время (prošedšeje istoričeskoje vremja) [neuter] (Russian), pretérito (Spanish)
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