preteriti — meaning in English
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English meaning
- preterite adj Describing an action that took place at a specific point in the past.
Senses
preteriti is used for these senses in English:
- past historic tense (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.
- preterite (grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.
- simple past (grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
preterite — full definition
- adj Describing an action that took place at a specific point in the past.
- adj Entirely over and done with; belonging to earlier times.
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