preterite in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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preterite in the PONS Dictionary

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The preterite form "would" is used in some conditional sentences, and as a past form of future "will" as described above under.
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Conjugation includes three persons, two numbers (singular and plural), three moods (indicative, imperative and subjunctive), and two tenses (present and preterite).
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Six morphological forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods present, preterite, imperfect, pluperfect, future, and conditional.: 6.
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These were originally aspectual, but developed into something more like a preterite and future.
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Preceding the preterite it is and causes lenition.
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In the colloquial language, the perfect is often preferred to the preterite.
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As the only difference between the historical classes 3b and 4 was the preterite plural, these two classes are now identical.
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Please note the use of -ss- instead of -- in the preterite forms.
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It is thus comparable in meaning to what is called the preterite in grammars of some languages.
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There are four inflectional forms of the verb traditionally called aorist, preterite, negative preterite and intensive.
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