"past tense" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: past tenses [plural]
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  1. (grammar) A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time). Wikipedia link: past tense Categories (topical): Grammar, Tenses Translations (grammatical form): koha e shkuar (Albanian), الْمَاضِي (al-māḍī) [masculine] (Arabic), الْفِعْل الْمَاضِي (al-fiʕl al-māḍī) [masculine] (Arabic), անցյալ ժամանակ (ancʿyal žamanak) (Armenian), keçmiş zaman (Azerbaijani), үткән заман (ütkən zaman) (Bashkir), lehenaldi (Basque), міну́лы час (minúly čas) [masculine] (Belarusian), amzer-dremenet [feminine] (Breton), мина́ло вре́ме (minálo vréme) [neuter] (Bulgarian), үнгэрһэн саг (üngerhen sag) (Buryat), минулый час (mynulŷj čas) [masculine] (Carpathian Rusyn), passat [masculine] (Catalan), pretèrit [masculine] (Catalan), 過去時態 (Chinese Mandarin), 过去时态 (guòqù shítài) (Chinese Mandarin), 過去式 (Chinese Mandarin), 过去式 (guòqù shì) (Chinese Mandarin), 過去時 (Chinese Mandarin), 过去时 (guòqùshí) (Chinese Mandarin), иртнĕ вăхăт (irtnĕ văhăt) (Chuvash), keçken zaman (Crimean Tatar), minulý čas [masculine] (Czech), verleden tijd (Dutch), minevik (Estonian), tátíð [feminine] (Faroese), imperfekti (Finnish), kertoma (Finnish), passé [masculine] (French), ნამყო (namq̇o) (Georgian), Vergangenheit [feminine] (German), Präteritum [neuter, preterite] (German), αόριστος (aóristos) [masculine] (Greek), ભૂતકાળ (bhūtkāḷ) (Gujarati), भूतकाल (bhūtkāl) [masculine] (Hindi), múlt idő (Hungarian), þátíð [feminine] (Icelandic), kala lampau (Indonesian), passato [masculine] (Italian), 過去時制 (kako jisei) (alt: かこじせい) (Japanese), 過去形 (kakokei) (alt: かこけい) (Japanese), өңгрсн цаг (öñgrsn tsag) (Kalmyk), өткен шақ (ötken şaq) (Kazakh), 과거시제 (gwageosije) (alt: 過去時制) (Korean), гетген заман (getgen zaman) (Kumyk), өткөн чак (ötkön cak) (Kyrgyz), tempus praeteritum [neuter] (Latin), praeteritum [neuter] (Latin), pagātnes laiks [masculine] (Latvian), būtasis laikas [masculine] (Lithuanian), минато време (minato vreme) [neuter] (Macedonian), ഭൂതകാലം (bhūtakālaṁ) (Malayalam), wāmua (Maori), өнгөрсөн цаг (öngörsön cag) (Mongolian), tʼáá íídą́ą́ʼ (Navajo), озган заман (ozgan zaman) (Nogai), ماضی (mâzi) (Persian), گذشته (gozašte) (Persian), czas przeszły [masculine] (Polish), pretérito [masculine] (Portuguese), passado [masculine] (Portuguese), timp trecut [neuter] (Romanian), проше́дшее вре́мя (prošédšeje vrémja) [neuter] (Russian), tràth caithte [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), прошло време [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), прошло вријеме [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), prošlo vreme [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), prošlo vrijeme [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), эрткен тем (ertken tem) (Shor), minulý čas [masculine] (Slovak), preteklik [masculine] (Slovene), ӧткӧн ӧй (ötkön öy) (Southern Altai), tiempo pasado [masculine] (Spanish), pretérito (Spanish), preteritum (Swedish), förfluten tid (Swedish), imperfekt (Swedish), pangnagdaan (Tagalog), naganap (Tagalog), замони гузашта (zamoni guzašta) (Tajik), гузашта (guzašta) (Tajik), мози (mozi) [dated] (Tajik), үткән заман (ütkän zaman) (Tatar), భూతకాలము (bhūtakālamu) (Telugu), อดีตกาล (à-dìit-dtà-gaan) (Thai), འདས་པ (english: 'das pa) (Tibetan), geçmiş zaman (Turkish), öten zaman (Turkmen), эрткен үе (ertken üe) (Tuvan), ортчем дыр (ortćem dyr) (Udmurt), мину́лий час (mynúlyj čas) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ئۆتكەن زامان (ötken zaman) (Uyghur), oʻtgan zamon (Uzbek), thời quá khứ (Vietnamese), thì quá khứ (Vietnamese), passé [masculine] (Walloon), amser gorffennol [masculine] (Welsh), doetiid [common-gender] (West Frisian), ааспыт кэм (aaspıt kem) (Yakut)

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          "sense": "grammatical form",
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          "roman": "ütkən zaman",
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          "word": "lehenaldi"
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "minúly čas",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "amzer-dremenet"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "minálo vréme",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "мина́ло вре́ме"
        },
        {
          "code": "bua",
          "lang": "Buryat",
          "roman": "üngerhen sag",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "үнгэрһэн саг"
        },
        {
          "code": "rue",
          "lang": "Carpathian Rusyn",
          "roman": "mynulŷj čas",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "минулый час"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "passat"
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "pretèrit"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "過去時態"
        },
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "guòqù shítài",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "过去时态"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "過去式"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "guòqù shì",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "过去式"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "過去時"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "guòqùshí",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "过去时"
        },
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          "code": "cv",
          "lang": "Chuvash",
          "roman": "irtnĕ văhăt",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "иртнĕ вăхăт"
        },
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          "code": "crh",
          "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "keçken zaman"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "minulý čas"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "verleden tijd"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "minevik"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tátíð"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "imperfekti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "kertoma"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "passé"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "namq̇o",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ნამყო"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Vergangenheit"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter",
            "preterite"
          ],
          "word": "Präteritum"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aóristos",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "αόριστος"
        },
        {
          "code": "gu",
          "lang": "Gujarati",
          "roman": "bhūtkāḷ",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ભૂતકાળ"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bhūtkāl",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "भूतकाल"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "múlt idő"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "þátíð"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "kala lampau"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "passato"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かこじせい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kako jisei",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "過去時制"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かこけい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kakokei",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "過去形"
        },
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          "code": "xal",
          "lang": "Kalmyk",
          "roman": "öñgrsn tsag",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "өңгрсн цаг"
        },
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          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "ötken şaq",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "өткен шақ"
        },
        {
          "alt": "過去時制",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "gwageosije",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "과거시제"
        },
        {
          "code": "kum",
          "lang": "Kumyk",
          "roman": "getgen zaman",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "гетген заман"
        },
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          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "ötkön cak",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "өткөн чак"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "tempus praeteritum"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "praeteritum"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pagātnes laiks"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "būtasis laikas"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "minato vreme",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "минато време"
        },
        {
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "bhūtakālaṁ",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ഭൂതകാലം"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "wāmua"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "öngörsön cag",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "өнгөрсөн цаг"
        },
        {
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "tʼáá íídą́ą́ʼ"
        },
        {
          "code": "nog",
          "lang": "Nogai",
          "roman": "ozgan zaman",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "озган заман"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mâzi",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ماضی"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "gozašte",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "گذشته"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "czas przeszły"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pretérito"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "passado"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "timp trecut"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prošédšeje vrémja",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "проше́дшее вре́мя"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tràth caithte"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "прошло време"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "прошло вријеме"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "prošlo vreme"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "prošlo vrijeme"
        },
        {
          "code": "cjs",
          "lang": "Shor",
          "roman": "ertken tem",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "эрткен тем"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "minulý čas"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "preteklik"
        },
        {
          "code": "alt",
          "lang": "Southern Altai",
          "roman": "ötkön öy",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ӧткӧн ӧй"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tiempo pasado"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "pretérito"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "preteritum"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "förfluten tid"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "imperfekt"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "pangnagdaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "naganap"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "zamoni guzašta",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "замони гузашта"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "guzašta",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "гузашта"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "mozi",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "dated"
          ],
          "word": "мози"
        },
        {
          "code": "tt",
          "lang": "Tatar",
          "roman": "ütkän zaman",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "үткән заман"
        },
        {
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "bhūtakālamu",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "భూతకాలము"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "à-dìit-dtà-gaan",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "อดีตกาล"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "english": "'das pa",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "འདས་པ"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "geçmiş zaman"
        },
        {
          "code": "tk",
          "lang": "Turkmen",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "öten zaman"
        },
        {
          "code": "tyv",
          "lang": "Tuvan",
          "roman": "ertken üe",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "эрткен үе"
        },
        {
          "code": "udm",
          "lang": "Udmurt",
          "roman": "ortćem dyr",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ортчем дыр"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "mynúlyj čas",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "мину́лий час"
        },
        {
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "ötken zaman",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ئۆتكەن زامان"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "oʻtgan zamon"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "thời quá khứ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "thì quá khứ"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "passé"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amser gorffennol"
        },
        {
          "code": "fy",
          "lang": "West Frisian",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "doetiid"
        },
        {
          "code": "sah",
          "lang": "Yakut",
          "roman": "aaspıt kem",
          "sense": "grammatical form",
          "word": "ааспыт кэм"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "past tense"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "past tense"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "past tenses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "past tense (plural past tenses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "be"
    },
    {
      "word": "is"
    },
    {
      "word": "was"
    },
    {
      "word": "were"
    },
    {
      "word": "aorist"
    },
    {
      "word": "past continuous"
    },
    {
      "word": "past indicative"
    },
    {
      "word": "past perfect"
    },
    {
      "word": "past perfect continuous"
    },
    {
      "word": "past subjunctive"
    },
    {
      "word": "preterite"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Bashkir terms with redundant script codes",
        "Chuvash terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Kazakh terms with redundant script codes",
        "Kumyk terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Kyrgyz terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Mongolian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Uyghur terms with redundant script codes",
        "Yakut terms with redundant script codes",
        "en:Grammar",
        "en:Tenses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Example: \"I saw the #5 bus across the street. I didn’t make it.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Tomoko Koneko, “The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English”, in Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue, Tomoji Tabata, editors, English Corpora under Japanese Eyes, Rodopi, page 215",
          "text": "This is a report on a study of the use of the past tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Eric W. Vogt, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Past-Tense Verbs Up Close, McGraw Hill, page v",
          "text": "As you have studied Spanish, you have probably had the feeling that there are just too many past tenses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert I. Binnick, The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb, BRILL, page 1",
          "text": "Some members of the [Mongolic language] family have three or more different affixes which seem to be markers of the past tense, so that in Khalkha, for example, irev, irjee, irlee, and irsen all can translate, and be translated by, the English past tense verb came.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ],
        [
          "transaction",
          "transaction"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence"
        ],
        [
          "now",
          "now"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "past tense"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "koha e shkuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-māḍī",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "الْمَاضِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-fiʕl al-māḍī",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "الْفِعْل الْمَاضِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ancʿyal žamanak",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "անցյալ ժամանակ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "keçmiş zaman"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "ütkən zaman",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "үткән заман"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "lehenaldi"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "minúly čas",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "міну́лы час"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amzer-dremenet"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "minálo vréme",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "мина́ло вре́ме"
    },
    {
      "code": "bua",
      "lang": "Buryat",
      "roman": "üngerhen sag",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "үнгэрһэн саг"
    },
    {
      "code": "rue",
      "lang": "Carpathian Rusyn",
      "roman": "mynulŷj čas",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "минулый час"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "passat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pretèrit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "過去時態"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guòqù shítài",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "过去时态"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "過去式"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guòqù shì",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "过去式"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "過去時"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guòqùshí",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "过去时"
    },
    {
      "code": "cv",
      "lang": "Chuvash",
      "roman": "irtnĕ văhăt",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "иртнĕ вăхăт"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "keçken zaman"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "minulý čas"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "verleden tijd"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "minevik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tátíð"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "imperfekti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "kertoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "passé"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "namq̇o",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ნამყო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vergangenheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "preterite"
      ],
      "word": "Präteritum"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aóristos",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αόριστος"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "bhūtkāḷ",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ભૂતકાળ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bhūtkāl",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "भूतकाल"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "múlt idő"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "þátíð"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "kala lampau"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "passato"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かこじせい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kako jisei",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "過去時制"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かこけい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kakokei",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "過去形"
    },
    {
      "code": "xal",
      "lang": "Kalmyk",
      "roman": "öñgrsn tsag",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "өңгрсн цаг"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "ötken şaq",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "өткен шақ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "過去時制",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gwageosije",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "과거시제"
    },
    {
      "code": "kum",
      "lang": "Kumyk",
      "roman": "getgen zaman",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "гетген заман"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "ötkön cak",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "өткөн чак"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tempus praeteritum"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "praeteritum"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pagātnes laiks"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "būtasis laikas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "minato vreme",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "минато време"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "bhūtakālaṁ",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ഭൂതകാലം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "wāmua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "öngörsön cag",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "өнгөрсөн цаг"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "tʼáá íídą́ą́ʼ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nog",
      "lang": "Nogai",
      "roman": "ozgan zaman",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "озган заман"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mâzi",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ماضی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gozašte",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "گذشته"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "czas przeszły"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pretérito"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "passado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "timp trecut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prošédšeje vrémja",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "проше́дшее вре́мя"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tràth caithte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прошло време"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прошло вријеме"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "prošlo vreme"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "prošlo vrijeme"
    },
    {
      "code": "cjs",
      "lang": "Shor",
      "roman": "ertken tem",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "эрткен тем"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "minulý čas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "preteklik"
    },
    {
      "code": "alt",
      "lang": "Southern Altai",
      "roman": "ötkön öy",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ӧткӧн ӧй"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tiempo pasado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "pretérito"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "preteritum"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "förfluten tid"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "imperfekt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "pangnagdaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "naganap"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "zamoni guzašta",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "замони гузашта"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "guzašta",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "гузашта"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "mozi",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "мози"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "ütkän zaman",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "үткән заман"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "bhūtakālamu",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "భూతకాలము"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "à-dìit-dtà-gaan",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "อดีตกาล"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "english": "'das pa",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "འདས་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "geçmiş zaman"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "öten zaman"
    },
    {
      "code": "tyv",
      "lang": "Tuvan",
      "roman": "ertken üe",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "эрткен үе"
    },
    {
      "code": "udm",
      "lang": "Udmurt",
      "roman": "ortćem dyr",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ортчем дыр"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mynúlyj čas",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мину́лий час"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "ötken zaman",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ئۆتكەن زامان"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "oʻtgan zamon"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "thời quá khứ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "thì quá khứ"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "passé"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amser gorffennol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "doetiid"
    },
    {
      "code": "sah",
      "lang": "Yakut",
      "roman": "aaspıt kem",
      "sense": "grammatical form",
      "word": "ааспыт кэм"
    }
  ],
  "word": "past tense"
}

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