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past tense
n.
A verb tense used to express an action or a condition that occurred in or during the past. For example, in While she was sewing, he read aloud, was sewing and read are in the past tense.
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Noun1.past tense - a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
preterit, preterite - a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
Translations
past tense npassato
in the past tense → al passato


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