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English
Noun
simple past (plural simple pasts)
- (grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
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Coordinate terms
- (grammatical tense): past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, past participle, present, present perfect, present continuous, present perfect continuous, present participle, future simple, future perfect, future continuous, future perfect continuous, future-in-the-past simple, future-perfect-in-the-past
Translations
the simple past tense
- Azerbaijani: şühudi keçmiş zaman
- Danish: præteritum (da), datid (da)
- Dutch: onvoltooid verleden tijd (nl) m
- Esperanto: estinteco (eo), 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:
- Northern 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 (fa) (gozašte-ye sâde)
- Portuguese: pretérito perfeito (pt) m, pretérito perfeito simples (pt) m; (the English simple past): passado simples (pt) m, pretérito simples 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
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