• 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...
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  • tenses: present (also conveying future meaning) and past (sometimes called "preterite" and conveying the meaning of all of the following English forms: "I did...
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    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...
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  • verb except be, the preterite (simple past tense) of go is not etymologically related to its infinitive. Instead, the preterite of go, went, descends...
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    preterite: gaf; English: infinitive: (to) give, preterite: gave; German: infinitive: geben, preterite: gab; Icelandic: infinitive: gefa, preterite: gaf;...
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    Aspect: perfective or imperfective (distinguished only in the past tense as preterite and imperfect) Voice: active or passive The modern Spanish verb paradigm...
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  • All e-verbs (with -de in preterite) and j-verbs get the following inflections: All other e-verbs (those with -te in preterite) get the following inflections:...
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    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...
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  • stem: forms the future Preterite active stem: forms the active preterite forms Preterite passive stem: forms the passive preterite forms Reduplication in...
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  • upon the formation of the preterite: strong and weak. Strong verbs exhibit an alternation of the stem vowel in the preterite and past participle (called...
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