past tense in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for past tense in the English»French Dictionary

I.past [Brit pɑːst, Am pæst] N For a full set of translations for past used in clocktime consult the usage note .

1. past (gen):

II.past [Brit pɑːst, Am pæst] ADJ

III.past [Brit pɑːst, Am pæst] PREP

IV.past [Brit pɑːst, Am pæst] ADV

V.past [Brit pɑːst, Am pæst]

See also care

I.care [Brit kɛː, Am kɛr] N

1. care (attention):

have a care! Brit give a care! Am

2. care (looking after):

soins mpl

1. care (feel concerned):

+ subj as if I/he cared!
I/he couldn't care less! Brit, I/he could care less! Am

I.tense [Brit tɛns, Am tɛns] N LING

II.tense [Brit tɛns, Am tɛns] ADJ

III.tense [Brit tɛns, Am tɛns] VB trans

past tense in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for past tense in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

Translations for past tense in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

Translations for past tense in the English»French Dictionary

British English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Additional true preterites with past tense meaning were formed with the addition of dentals in the manner of the weak verbs.
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The accordance in gender takes effect in the past tense and the passive voice, not in the present and future tenses in active voice.
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An inflectional ending is available as a shorthand for the simple past tense.
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For the imperfective aspect, suffixes are used to indicate the past tense indicative mood, the non-past tense indicative mood, and the subjunctive and imperative moods.
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After 1865, tuckahoe became an historical term, used almost exclusively in the past tense.
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The diaries, however, seem to switch at least once from the past tense (as a diary would be written) to the present tense.
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In other words, the participle serves as a nominalization for a simple past tense in the kartari prayoga.
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The "suffix conjugation" takes suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, and normally indicates past tense (or alternatively, perfective aspect).
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Note that the tense changes as well, so that in the first example the past tense is used even though the present tense is intended.
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They form their past tense with an ending containing a dental consonant, "-d-" or "-t-".
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