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Pular grammar (2,436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are conjugated in the Simple Past form. 2) Verbs ending in "agol": To express the affirmative form of agol verbs in the "simple past" form, simply replace

Tajik grammar (1,527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 1st person singular to give a basic idea of the tense's use. The simple past is formed with the past stem and personal endings. ман кардам (I did)

Bengali grammar (4,351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ago, for instance, unlike Bangla's simple past (see above). It would usually be translated with English's simple past: I ate, you ran, he read, etc. but

Ubykh grammar (1,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the colon indicates the boundary of a morpheme. The verbs in the simple past tense are conjugated with -/qʼɜ/ in the singular and -/qʼɜ-n(ɜ)/ in the

Kashmiri language (6,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Intransitive verbs in the simple past are conjugated the same as intransitives in the indefinite past tense form. In contrast to the simple past, verb stems are

Novial (1,810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

verb tenses. An inflectional ending is available as a shorthand for the simple past tense. A major difference between Novial and Esperanto/Ido concerns noun

Ubykh language (4,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the colon indicates the boundary of a morpheme. The verbs in the simple past tense are conjugated with -/qʼɜ/ in the singular and -/qʼɜ-n(ɜ)/ in the

Passé simple (629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The passé simple (French pronunciation: [pase sɛ̃pl], simple past, preterite, or past historic), also called the passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite

Uyghur grammar (7,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

judgement copula. Note that the A is raised to i. The (I)wat infix + simple past can also be used here. This is the -mAKchi verb of intention form of

Runglish (3,851 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Runglish, Ruslish, Russlish (Russian: рунглиш, руслиш, русслиш), or Russian English, is a language born out of a mixture of the English and Russian languages

French verbs (3,502 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

present (le présent: present tense, imperfective aspect), the simple past (le passé simple: past tense, perfective aspect), the imperfect (l'imparfait: past

Principal parts (1,997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

only one part is irregular Part rendering infinitive to sew preterite (or simple past) sewed past participle sewn

Comparison between Esperanto and Novial (1,296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Simple present love(s) am-as ama Future will (shall) love am-os sal ama Simple past loved am-is did ama (ama-d) Present perfect have (has) loved est-as am-int-a(j)

Achomi language (1,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Kurdish: dichim or dechim) instead. To make simple past verbs The ids (om / ot / osh / mo / to / sho) + The simple past root of the first type Example: Omgot:

Spanish verbs (10,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which English uses a simple past ("I did") but Spanish requires a perfect. In the remaining cases, both languages use a simple past. As in English, the

Tense–aspect–mood (7,099 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

than conveying perfect aspect. The past progressive is conveyed by the simple past form. The future can be conveyed by the auxiliary werden, which is conjugated

Bemba language (2,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used in relative clauses Simple past of yesterday (1) ali unmodified The stress must not be on the 'a' of the prefix Simple past of yesterday (2) a modified

Lake Cadibarrawirracanna (381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

warrakanha", where kardipirla is stars, warra- is dance, play, -ka is simple past tense, and -nha is a proper noun marker.[citation needed] The lake is

Word stem (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

singular) waits (3rd person singular simple present indicative) waited (simple past) waited (past participle) waiting (present participle) In languages with

Ga language (942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or extra long (the latter appears only in the simple future and the simple past negative forms). Ga has two tones, high and low. Like many West African

Nepali grammar (1,773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conjugated as follows: हुनु hunu also has two suppletive stems in the simple past, namely भ- bha- (the use of which corresponds to the huncha-conjugation)

Namlish (721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The same goes for use of the past continuous tense in the place of the simple past. Example 4: When people ask time they often say "how late is it?" which

Valencian language (7,462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Valencian dialects that utilize -ei-, e.g. serveix. In Valencian the simple past tense (e.g. cantà 'he sang') is more frequently used in speech than in

Spanish language (16,244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

voseo (River Plate Spanish) Indicative Subjunctive Imperative Present Simple past Imperfect past Future Conditional Present Past pensás pensaste pensabas

Falkland Islands English (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[nəɪs]. Use of verb tenses: There may be a preference for using the simple past tense instead of the present perfect to express past actions. For example

Sorani (4,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

plural (Plural "you") and third person plural ("they"). Similarly, the simple past verb is created using the past stem of the verb. The following example

Old Japanese (6,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

retrospective -ke1r-, a fusion of the simple past with ar- 'exist'. the past conjectural -ke1m-, a fusion of the simple past with the conjectural suffix -am-

Persian phonology (3,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

informal language, the present perfect tense is pronounced like the simple past tense. Only the word-accent distinguishes between these tenses: the accented

French grammar (6,277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

simple (one-word) forms are commonly referred to as the present, the simple past or preterite (past tense, perfective aspect), the imperfect (past tense

Interlingua grammar (4,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it runs poorly!' The simple past tense can be formed by adding -va to the present tense form. It covers the English simple past and past perfect, along

Kachari language (884 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Meaning Infinitive -nǔ nu-nǔ to see Progressive -dang nu-dang I am seeing Simple Past -bai nu-bai I saw Past Progressive -dangman nu-dangman I did see Past

Finnish language (9,379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

system consisting of four tense-aspect combinations: simple present, simple past, perfect (present + perfective aspect) and pluperfect (past + perfective

Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe) (933 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Ndilakuta Recent Past (Past of Today) -ali-(verb root)-ide ndalikutide Simple Past -aka- ndakakuta Recent Past Continuous -ali-ku-(verb root) ndalikukuta

Turkish language (9,431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are 9 simple and 20 compound tenses in Turkish. 9 simple tenses are simple past (di'li geçmiş), inferential past (miş'li geçmiş), present continuous

Bavarian language (2,197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

article. With very few exceptions, nouns are not inflected for case. The simple past tense is very rare in Bavarian and has been retained for only a few verbs

Defective verb (3,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

but too much of the finite indicative mood is formally lacking (all simple past *bewared, one simple present *bewares, all aspects *am bewaring, etc

Inflection (6,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

handful of commonly used verbs are fully conjugated in the present and simple past, most verbs being conjugated by means of an auxiliary which differs according

Conditional sentence (2,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

examples: Indicative conditional: If Sally owns a donkey, then she beats it. Simple past counterfactual: If Sally owned a donkey, she would beat it. These conditionals

Counterfactual conditional (5,451 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pair: Indicative conditional: If Sally owns a donkey, then she rides it. Simple past counterfactual: If Sally owned a donkey, she would ride it. These conditionals

New International Version (3,160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

translation such as the New Revised Standard Version uses "formed" in the simple past tense: "So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal." Some

African-American Vernacular English (10,942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to something like [ɜ~ə]. Although AAVE does not necessarily have the simple past-tense marker of other English varieties (that is, the -ed of "worked")

Cypriot Turkish (757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Turkish does not use the narrative/indefinite past, and only uses the simple past instead. Standard Turkish Eve gitmiş ("He is reported to have gone home")

Algherese dialect (1,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Algherese); any ('year') [ˈaɲ] (Eastern Standard), [ˈan] (Algherese). The simple past is replaced by the present perfect (present of haver "to have" + past

French orthography (3,525 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lady â /ɑ/ château, pâté /a/ dégât (also /ɑ/), parlâmes, liâtes, menât (simple past and imperfect subjunctive verb endings -âmes, -âtes, and -ât) aa /a/

Volatility (finance) (2,923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

predictive power is similar to that of plain-vanilla measures, such as simple past volatility especially out-of-sample, where different data are used to

Pashto grammar (10,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following tenses: Present; simple past; past progressive; present perfect; and past perfect. In any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present

Vav-consecutive (1,577 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

function. Weingreen gives the following example. If one considers two simple past narrative statements, one expects to find them in the perfect tense:

Continuous and progressive aspects (4,785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

indicate for how long Andrew played, nor how often he plays; for that, the simple past would suffice: "Andrew played tennis three hours every day for several

Old Turkic (2,087 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

classification Tense Positive Negative Imperfect Aorist -Ur -mAz Preterite (Simple Past) -dI Perfect Participle -mIš -mAdOk Future -dAčI -mAčI Vivid Past -yOk

Latvian grammar (1,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Imperative Conditional Conjunctive Debitive Simple present ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Simple past ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ Simple future ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ Present perfect ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ Past

Go (verb) (1,278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Indo-European roots. Unlike every other English verb except be, the preterite (simple past tense) of go is not etymologically related to its infinitive. Instead

Fuliiru language (2,560 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Prefix TAM meaning -à Simple Past (P1) -ká Unmarked Past (P2) -áàli Remote Past (P3) -àmú Immediate Future (F1) -gáá Unmarked Future (F2) -ááyè Remote

Yatzachi Zapotec (3,825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In the examples, it is worth noting that some of the verbs are in the simple past (preterite) tense, while others are in the imperfective aspect. However

Pashto (6,300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with the object if it is transitive. Verbs are inflected for present, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, and past perfect tenses. There is

Comorian languages (2,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two past tense constructions in Comorian. The first of these is the simple past tense, which uses the structure SM-Root-Suffix 1. The second is the compound

Central American Spanish (1,505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

just like pretérito anterior, is rarely used; so, it's replaced by simple past. Juan no ha llegado → Juan no llegó todavía El torneo ha comenzado →

Persian verbs (5,989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nákardam 'I didn't do (it)'. In addition to its normal meaning of the simple past (e.g. 'he went'), the past simple also has some idiomatic uses in Persian

Banalata Sen (2,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perfect continuous tense. Most translations have rendered this either into simple past tense or present perfect tense. Oblivious of the continuity of the act

Bench language (1,483 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a formation common among Ethiopian languages. The primary tenses are simple past (formed from the past stem), future (future stem plus [-n̄s-]), present

Uropi (1,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

present is that of the radical: i jed: "I eat", tu sop: "you sleep". The simple past is formed by adding a stressed -ì: i jedì: "I ate", he avì: "he had"

Catalan verbs (2,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

indicative mood has two remote-past forms, analogous to the English simple past. The more common is the periphrastic preterite (pretèrit perfet perifràstic)

Cook Islands Māori (1,704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

knew) that Tere will (or would) be angry Kua translatable as the English simple past or present tense (with adjectives) Kua kite mai koe ia mātou : You saw

Biblical Hebrew (13,348 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

The verbal forms can be Past Tense in these circumstances: Perfect, Simple Past: in narrative, reflects a simple completed action, perception, emotion

English as a second or foreign language (13,266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with some quite subtle differences, such as the difference between the simple past "I ate" and the present perfect "I have eaten". Progressive and perfect

Lemnian language (2,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Etruscan: še + alχl + s); They also share the genitive in *-s and a simple past tense in *-a-i (Etruscan -⟨e⟩ as in ame 'was' (< *amai); Lemnian -⟨ai⟩

Kurdish grammar (1,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Person 1st 2nd 3rd Plural Intransitive past Simple past hatim hatî hat hatin Imperfective preterite dihatim dihatî dihat dihatin Perfect hatime hatiyî

Spanish dialects and varieties (9,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

auxiliary verb haber plus a main verb. The preterite, also called the "simple past" and, in Spanish, pretérito indefinido or pretérito perfecto simple,

Chavacano (9,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(before) and despues (after) can be used between two sentences in the simple past form to show which verb came first. The words antes (before) and despues

Atlantean language (2,043 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

obliged to bring kaber.se.kem kaber.se.kem we are obliged to warn Past Simple Past -i bernot.i.mik bring-PAST-1SG bernot.i.mik bring-PAST-1SG I brought

Rioplatense Spanish (3,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perfecto compuesto), just like pretérito anterior, is rarely used: the simple past replaces it. However, the Present Perfect is still used in Northwestern

Casablanca (11,848 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Saint-Exupéry is associated with Casablanca. Driss Chraïbi's novel The Simple Past takes place in Casablanca. Mohamed Zafzaf lived in Maarif while writing

Aorist (2,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

completed action in the past tense. It most often corresponds to the simple past tense in English: I read the book, I wrote the letter, I ate my supper

Literary language (4,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Amongst the differences is the regular use of the genitive case or the simple past tense Präteritum in written language. In vernacular German, genitive

Acute accent (5,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

imperative form of "to control", kontroller is the noun "controls". The simple past of the verb å fare, "to travel", can optionally be written fór, to distinguish

Garden-path sentence (2,787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

participle. The reader initially interprets raced as the main verb in the simple past, but when the reader encounters fell, they are forced to re-analyze the

Aube (2,980 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

dolls of yesteryear and cooperage (Maisons-lès-Chaource) Museum of the Simple Past (Crésantignes) Aube Educational History Museum Museum of news design

Germanic verbs (2,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Latin), and so it was with Germanic that the perfect came to be used as a simple past tense. The semantic justification for this change is that actions of

Bulgarian language (12,970 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

suspicion, etc. The inferential mood has five pure tenses. Two of them are simple – past aorist inferential and past imperfect inferential – and are formed by

Pennsylvania Dutch language (4,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perfect: Ich bin ins Feld glaafe ('I have run into the field') and not the simple past (Ich lief ins Feld ['I ran into the field']), which is retained only

Analogy (6,494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

these rules. For example, the English verb help once had the preterite (simple past tense in English) holp and the past participle holpen. These old-fashioned

Occitano-Romance languages (2,766 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

turned into a [n]: On another page, while Occitan uses exclusively the simple past tense, Catalan (most dialects) and Aragonese (Eastern dialects) use another

Older Southern American English (3,728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to had a heart attack. (I nearly had a heart attack) The use of the simple past infinitive vs present perfect infinitive. I like to had. vs I like to

Yahgan language (4,988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

). Aspect (such as progressive -gaiata-), tense (for instance -vde: simple past, -u:a simple future, with added increments -vde:aka 'further past', -u:ana

Conditional mood (2,758 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

apodosis, while the protasis (the condition clause) uses instead the simple past form loved. Not every conditional sentence, however, involves the conditional

Nightfall (1956 film) (1,736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

mischances, Vanning struggles to “comprehend how violent but basically simple past occurrences have put him in such a dangerous and complicated present

Hiberno-English (8,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

replace the simple present tense with the conditional (would) and the simple past tense with the conditional perfect (would have). "John asked me would

Code of Hammurabi (9,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a previous law (e.g. laws 36, 38, and 40). The preterite is used for simple past verbs in the protasis, or possibly for a simple conditional. The perfect

Battleborn (book) (215 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Chicago Tribune Printers Row "The Past Perfect, the Past Continuous, the Simple Past" The Paris Review "Wish You Were Here" The Sycamore Review "Man-O-War"

South Bolivian Quechua (2,688 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following the person marking. Examples of tense markers include the simple past suffix -rqa, past imperfect -yka, and past perfect -sqa. Tense suffixes

List of glossing abbreviations (3,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

PAS past tense (e.g. PINDEF past indefinite, MPST modal past, SPST simple past) PSTN past nominalization PST.PR past/present (different readings on

Corfiot Italians (4,449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

la tovaggia pir, e l'altva menza infra li doi, pir cu farrimu." The simple past tense ("vitti", "vidisti", "vitti") was the only one in use among the

Low German (11,055 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Infinitive Simple Past Westphalian subjunctive 2 suin (to be) Ik was (I was) ik wöre (I would be) bluiven (to stay) he blaiw (I stayed) he bliewe (he

VIX (3,417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

forecasting models is similar to that of plain-vanilla measures, such as simple past volatility. However, other works have countered that these critiques

Catalan orthography (4,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

convéncer 'to convince'). The second and third person of the plural of the simple past tense of indicative with accent on the radical: fèiem / féiem 'we did'

Appalachian English (6,988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

go." She had went to Ashland. Less frequently, "gone" is used as the simple past tense. I gone down to the meeting, but wasn't nobody there. "Done" is

Plautdietsch (7,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

jestolna Hunt (to steal, stolen, a stolen dog) Except for the present and simple past, all other tenses are constructed with the aid of the auxiliary verbs

Glosa (3,229 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Translation Infinitive - Mi volu lekto u bibli. I want to read the book. Simple Past pa Mi pa lekto u bibli. I (did) read the book. Imperfect pa du Mi pa

Chuvash language (7,335 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

allomorph -р- is used after vowels, while -т- is used after consonants. The simple past tense is used only for witnesses events, whereas retold events are expressed

Lala language (Papua New Guinea) (768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

be altered when the word is shouted.[citation needed] Simple present, simple past, and present continuous tenses marked on subject person markers. The

Delilah & Julius (1,947 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

needs to make time travel work. 51 25 "The End of Tomorrow – Part 2 – Simple Past" Daniel Williams and Lienne Sawatsky August 16, 2008 (2008-08-16) (October 31

Esperanto etymology (3,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[y], as a French u. Faiguet used -o for the past perfect. There is no simple past tense, but -i- is used for the past subjunctive spelled "ä" spelled "iy";

Reforms of French orthography (2,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not needed to distinguish between homographs. They are retained in the simple past and subjunctive of verbs: mû → mu (driven), but qu'il mût unchanged (he

Icelandic grammar (4,697 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

speaking, there are only two simple tenses in Icelandic, simple present and simple past. All other tenses are formed using auxiliary constructions (some of these

Sequence of tenses (2,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

four tables (see below). If the verb of the main clause is in the past (simple past, imperfect, or past perfect), the verbal forms of the subordinate clause

Liaison (French) (4,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

verbs, such as ouvrir (ouvre "opens") ending in -a: va "goes", a "has", simple past tense of -er verbs, future tense of all verbs ending in a consonant:

Dutch grammar (11,690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

heb gegeten 'I ate', literally 'I have eaten' – present perfect (with simple past meaning) Ik had gegeten 'I had eaten' or 'I had been eating' – past perfect

Classical Nahuatl grammar (3,906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The preterite or perfect tense is similar in meaning to the English simple past or present perfect. The singular often ends in -h or -c while the plural

Levantine Arabic (14,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the prefix t-. While the verb forms V, VI and VII are common in the simple past and compound tenses, the passive participle (past participle) is preferred

Swedish grammar (5,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Swedish Bible translation, completed 1541. This is best shown by example: Simple past: "I ate (the) dinner" – jag åt maten (using preterite) Composite past:

Saint Lucian Creole (3,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

particles placed before the verb. ø the absence of a particle indicates the simple past: pwèt-la bwè kafé the priest drank coffee It also indicates the present

Spanish grammar (7,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

normatively has an -s ending in the second person singular of the preterite or simple past. For example, lo hicistes instead of the normative lo hiciste; hablastes

Pro-drop language (5,855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inferable as the verb gör-mek "to see" is conjugated in the first person simple past tense form. The object is indicated by the pronoun seni in this case

Latin grammar (6,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modern English, there is no distinction between perfect (I have done) and simple past (I did). The same tense, known in Latin grammar as the perfect tense

American and British English grammatical differences (4,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

would and would have (usually shortened to [I]'d and would've) for the simple past and for the pluperfect (If you'd leave now, you'd be on time. / If I

Navajo grammar (4,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

When referring to past situations, it usually corresponds to English simple past: yíyáʼ "I went/came/arrived", yíyą́ą́ʼ "I ate (something)". However,

List of Latin-script digraphs (15,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

represented /ʃ/. ⟨sç⟩ is used in French for /s/ in a few verb forms such as simple past acquiesça /akjɛsa/. It is also used in Portuguese as in the imperative/conjunctive

Maithili grammar (3,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lengthened) + ह h is used for forming the 3rd person honorific form of simple past intransitive verbs, such as सुतलाह sutalāh (he/she-Hon. slept). Both

Moderato Cantabile (2,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

written in past tense, the French passé simple (usually translated as simple past) and "imparfait" (Imperfect). In Chapter 7, the tense changes noticeably

Eastern Lombard grammar (4,529 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dré a córer III plur.: (i)è dré a córer There are four past tenses. A simple past (imperfect) and three compound pasts (past progressive, present perfect

Rama language (4,586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used in independent clauses: see the section on Aspect below. Using the simple past tense of kwis "eat", the sentence Kruubu kiikna kwisu means "The tiger

Japanese conjugation (6,447 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Japanese Function I went to Japan. 日本に行った (nihon ni itta) past tense I practiced piano every day. 毎日ピアノの練習をした (mainichi piano no renshū o shita) simple past

Chichewa tenses (16,928 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

different negative intonations, depending on the meaning. For example, the Simple Past (Remote Perfect) ndi-ná-gula "I bought" has the following negatives with

Ramarama language (5,361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two particles are co and kán. Co refers to actions in the recent or simple past while kán is used for actions that happened a long time ago or past events

Yolmo language (10,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eat' Simple non-past khó ŋù-en 'he cries' khói tó sà-en 'he eats rice' Simple past khó ŋù-sin 'he cried' khói tó sà-sin 'he ate rice' 'Telling' past khó

Italian grammar (8,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

when the principal clause is in a simple tense (future, present, or simple past,) the subordinate clause uses the present subjunctive, to express contemporaneity

Levantine Arabic grammar (4,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the prefix t-. While the verb forms V, VI and VII are common in the simple past and compound tenses, the passive participle (past participle) is preferred

Indo-European copula (3,971 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

verb (e.g. hast-am = literally: *‘(I) am existence’→ ‘I exist’). The simple past conjugation of the verb būdan (to be) is in fact formed by a double-copula

Portuguese grammar (7,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

losing ground to the compound form using tinha in the last decades. The simple past (or pretérito perfeito simples in Portuguese) is widely used, sometimes

Ojibwe grammar (4,880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

main classes: Verbs mark tenses with prefixes (a'-, aorist past, gii'-, simple past, ga(d)- and da-, future, and wii'-, desiderative future), but also can

Oliventine Portuguese (3,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Present Simple past perfect Simple imperfect past tense Future Conditional Infinitive Falo Falê Fala(b/v)a Falarê Falaria Falári/Falá Fala(h/s) Falasti(h/s)

Modern Hebrew verbs (2,690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used for both an analytic conditional/ past-habitual mood and for a simple past-habitual aspect. In either case, היה is conjugated in the past tense

Korean verbs (3,235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

semantics of the verb that it is attached to and the context; it may be a simple past or a present perfect. Etymologically, 'ss is a contraction of the existential

Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch (9,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Afrikaans, with almost all verbs being regular and the near absence of the simple past tense, means that while the phrase ek het gehelp ("I have helped" or

German sentence structure (4,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

constructions of this type can usually be avoided altogether by using the simple past: Er wollte wissen, ob du es hast tun können / tun hast können. = Er wollte

Galgenlieder (561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

paws before the dead), "The Iswolf, so we may commence, the Waswolf, simple past in tense, the Beenwolf, perfect; so construed, the Werewolf is subjunctive

List of commonly misused English words (12,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

book. gone and went. Gone is the past participle of go. Went is the simple past tense of go. Non-standard: Looking back on it, they should have went

Latin syntax (9,614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Note in particular that the Latin perfect tense combines the English simple past ("I did") with the present perfect ("I have done") into a single form;

Middle High German verbs (1,676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

persons. The language had two simple tenses: present and preterite (or "simple past"). In addition, there were also three tenses that made use of auxiliary

Meanderings of Memory (1,855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

*uncelestialized by heathen hand. un- "8. prefixing to past participles; a. Simple past pples. in -ed; (c) forms in -ized" uncelestialized un- (prefix) I. 5

Silesian grammar (3,409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The grammar of the Silesian language is characterized by a high degree of inflection, and has relatively free word order, although the dominant arrangement

Ancient Greek verbs (8,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a situation, it is often used in narrative where English would use a simple past, especially with verbs meaning "send", "go", "say", and "order": ἐς τᾱ̀ς

Romance linguistics (10,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Simple preterite (literary except in some Valencian dialects) Preterite Simple past (literary) — Preterite (Regional Italian in Tuscany); Literary Remote

Covert prestige (4,662 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

word-final [s] is heavily involved in person marking: Simple Present Tense Simple Past Tense The disambiguation of number and person marking in Murcian Spanish

Verbum dicendi (4,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is not uttered but takes place in one's mind as direct speech in the simple past tense; this use of 思う omou 'think' is called a "quasi-communicative act"

Urban traffic modeling and analysis (1,861 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a specific location. The following methods and algorithms uses this simple past-data approach but distinguish themselves by different criteria. To begin

Basque verbs (4,129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

I sing?', Lagunduko didazu? 'Will/Would/Could you help me (please)?' Simple past SYNTHETIC PAST nintzen 'I was' neukan 'I had (it)' nekien 'I knew' Limited

Latin tenses (27,200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

event precedes the event of the main clause. Usually in English the simple past is used: cum rosam vīderat tum incipere vēr arbitrābātur (Cicero) 'it

Latin tenses (semantics) (3,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

became progressively more common, though still less common than the simple past with a 'perfect indicative' verb. In Latin, represented events and states

Margaret Bromley (4,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was too much Humility and low thought of her self." As Baxter uses the simple past tense, there is ambiguity about whether he understood Bromskill to be

Chichewa tones (18,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spreads, when the verb has three or more syllables. The remote perfect (simple past) tense can be made with -ná- or -dá- (-dá- being preferred in writing:

Linguistic development of Genie (19,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

her to produce these questions. From October 1973 to January 1974, on simple past tense sentences such as, "The girl opened the umbrella" Genie was only

Old Romanian (2,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

numerous forms at the beginning of the Old Romanian period were the simple past (Scriș eu, călugărița Mariia) but gradually a distinction between "impersonal

Latin tenses with modality (5,825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

event precedes the event of the main clause. Usually in English the simple past is used: cum rosam vīderat tum incipere vēr arbitrābātur (Cicero) 'it

La Virgen Cabeza (4,964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adding a letter /s/ at the end of the second conjugation of verbs in simple past tense (as in the case of contastes instead of contaste, or escribistes

Subjunctive mood in Spanish (5,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and an infinitive. There are two sets of endings of the imperfect (or simple past) subjunctive, one that contains -ra and the other -se. For regular -ar

Hypotyposis (5,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

devices such as emphasis allow the use of the imperfect tense and the simple past tense, giving an impression of vivid description. Combined with demonstrative