Associations to the word «Preterite»
Noun
Adjective
- Tense
- Indicative
- Modal
- Imperfect
- Plural
- Germanic
- Conditional
- Past
- Grammatical
- Auxiliary
- Singular
- Dental
- Perfect
- Irregular
- Weak
- Verbal
- Present
- Simple
- Gothic
- Formed
- Latin
- Future
- Strong
- English
- Spanish
- Marked
- Catalan
- Used
- Romance
- Proto
- German
- Class
- Passive
- Identical
- Negative
- Corresponding
- Meaning
- Frequent
- Continuous
- Portuguese
- Expressed
- Literary
- Regular
- Third
- Express
- 3rd
Adverb
Wiktionary
PRETERITE, adjective. (grammar) (of a tense) showing an action at a determined moment in the past.
PRETERITE, adjective. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
PRETERITE, noun. (grammar) The preterite tense, simple past tense: the grammatical tense that determines the specific initiation or termination of an action in the past.
Dictionary definition
PRETERITE, noun. A term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.