- 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...
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otherwise mark a
strong preterite.
Konnte "could, was able to" (
preterite)
displays the
dental suffix of the weak
preterites.
According to one "widely-held...
- will–would, and must and
ought (These last two have no
preterites. They were
originally preterites themselves).
There are also dare and need,
which follow...
- Aspect:
perfective or
imperfective (distinguished only in the past
tense as
preterite and imperfect) Voice:
active or p****ive The
modern Spanish verb paradigm...
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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...
- 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...
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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...
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writing (including
history and literature) and
formal speech. As with
other preterites, it is used when the
action has a
definite beginning and end and has already...
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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...
- The t-
preterite The root
aorist The s-, t-, and root
aorist preterites take Indo-European
secondary endings,
while the
reduplicated suffix preterite took...
