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...

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

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...

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,...

paralepsis – or occupatio or occultatio, and known also as praeteritio, preterition, or parasiopesis (παρασιώπησις). As a rhetorical device, apophasis can...

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...

often conveys reported speech; subjunctive plus preterite marks the conditional state; and the preterite alone shows either plain indicative (in the past)...

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

This article uses the IPA to transcribe Irish. Readers familiar with other conventions may wish to see Help:IPA/Irish for a comparison of the IPA system...