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Definition 2024

simple_past

simple past

See also: simple-past

English

Noun

simple past ‎(plural simple pasts)

(grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by inflection of a single word (i.e., without any auxiliary verb such as be or have).

Synonyms

(grammar): preterite, preterit

Translations

the simple past tense

Danish: præteritum (da), datid (da)
Dutch: onvoltooid verleden tijd (nl) m
Esperanto: estinteco, estinto, preterito (eo)
Finnish: imperfekti (fi), preteriti (fi)
French: passé (fr) m, imparfait (fr) m, passé simple (fr) m (these terms have slightly different meanings in French, they are not synonyms)
German: Präteritum (de) n
Greek: αόριστος (el) m ‎(aóristos)
Hungarian: egyszerű múlt
Kurdish: dema borî (ku) f
Norman: sîmpl'ye pâssé m

Norwegian:

Bokmål: preteritum n

Nynorsk: preteritum n
Persian: ماضی ساده ‎(mâzi-e sâde), گذشته ساده ‎(gozašte-ye sâde)
Portuguese: pretérito perfeito (pt) m, pretérito perfeito simples (pt) m
Russian: просто́е проше́дшее вре́мя n ‎(prostóje prošédšeje vrémja), проше́дшее вре́мя (ru) n ‎(prošédšeje vrémja)
Spanish: pretérito (es)
Swedish: preteritum (sv) (imperfekt (sv))
Turkish: geçmiş zaman (tr), -di'li geçmiş zaman, geçmiş zamanın hikayesi

Coordinate terms

(grammatical tense): present, present perfect, past perfect, past participle, past continuous

See also

Simple past (English) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Preterite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

palimpsest, past simple