Grammatical tenses

category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place

grammatical tense; pertaining to current time relative to speaker/writer/reader

grammatical tense

The imperfect (abbreviated '''''') is a verb form that combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or repeated event or state). It can have meanings similar to the English "was doing (something)" or "used to do (something)". It contrasts with preterite forms, which refer to a single completed event in the past.

Aorist (abbreviated '''''') verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek grammar had the aorist form, and the grammars of other Indo-European languages and languages influenced by the Indo-European grammatical tradition, such as Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Armenian, the South Slavic languages, Georgian, Pontic Greek, and Pashto, also have forms referred to as aorist.

The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving an action from an antecedent point in time. Examples in English are: "we had arrived" before the game began; "they had been writing" when the bell rang.

grammatical tense

grammatical mood

tense

The preterite or preterit ( ; abbreviated ' or ) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past' tense. In general, it combines the perfective aspect (event viewed as a single whole; it is not to be confused with the similarly named perfect) with the past tense and may thus also be termed the perfective past. In grammars of particular languages the preterite is sometimes called the past historic, or (particularly in the Greek grammatical trad

grammatical combination of the present tense and the perfect aspect

verb form

common past tense in French

verb tense

linguistic device

basic form of the past tense

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated ' in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as TMA') is an important group of grammatical categories, which are marked in different ways by different languages.

set of grammatical rules of a particular language, governing the agreement between the tenses of verbs in related clauses or sentences

literary equivalent of the passé composé in the French language

possible grammatical tense distinctions

grammatical construction