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Isaw the #5 bus across the street. Ididn't make it.

pasttense (pluralpast tenses)

  2. (grammar) A grammatical form (often averb form) that refers to anevent,transaction,occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time beforenow (the applicable reference time).
    • 2004, Tomoko Koneko, “The Use ofPast Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English”, in Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue, Tomoji Tabata, editors,English Corpora under Japanese Eyes,Rodopi,page215:
      This is a report on a study of the use of thepast tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project.
    • 2009, Eric W. Vogt,Practice Makes Perfect: SpanishPast-Tense Verbs Up Close, McGraw Hill,page v:
      As you have studied Spanish, you have probably had the feeling that there are just too manypast tenses.
    • 2012, Robert I. Binnick,ThePast Tenses of the Mongolian Verb,BRILL,page 1:
      Some members of the [Mongolic language] family have three or more different affixes which seem to be markers of thepast tense, so that in Khalkha, for example,irev,irjee,irlee, andirsen all can translate, and be translated by, the Englishpast tense verbcame.

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