Definition of Preterites. Meaning of Preterites. Synonyms of Preterites

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Definition of Preterites

Preterite
Preterite Pret"er*ite, a. & n. Same as Preterit.

Meaning of Preterites from wikipedia

- In Germanic languages, the term "preterite" is sometimes used for the past tense. The majority of English's preterites (often called simple past or just...
- otherwise mark a strong preterite. Konnte "could, was able to" (preterite) displays the dental suffix of the weak preterites. According to one "widely-held...
- refer to: Germanic weak verb, verbs in Germanic languages that form their preterites and past participles by means of a dental suffix Weak inflection, a system...
- Aspect: perfective or imperfective (distinguished only in the past tense as preterite and imperfect) Voice: active or p****ive The modern Spanish verb paradigm...
- characterised by preterites formed by appending the suffixes -da or -ta, parallel to past participles formed with -þ / -t. Strong verbs form preterites by ablaut...
- The t-preterite The root aorist The s-, t-, and root aorist preterites take Indo-European secondary endings, while the reduplicated suffix preterite took...
- paralepsis – or occupatio or occultatio, and known also as praeteritio, preterition, or pa****pesis (παρασιώπησις). As a rhetorical device, apophasis can...
- homogeneity of vowel pattern: break broke broken but several verbs have archaic preterites that preserve the "a" of Middle English (bare, brake, gat, sware, tare...
- may be used here in its role of the preterite form of can (if I could speak French). However, all the modal preterites can be used in such clauses with certain...
- various ēode-derived preterites of go, thus a variant preterite of wend absorbed the function. After went became established as the preterite of go, wend took...