preterit

Speech parts

1. preterit - Noun

2. preterit - Adjective

Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Source: Webster's dictionary

preterite present late old former past previous future passe ancient prior spent dead perfect preceding

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present future ahead of time highly successful

past past tense

Prettier

preterintentional preterism preterist preterite preterite tense preterite-present