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...

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

Aspect: perfective or imperfective (distinguished only in the past tense as preterite and imperfect) Voice: active or passive The modern Spanish verb paradigm...

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...

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:...

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,...

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...