Tense
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taken from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
Some tenses:
- Present:the tense or form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time.
- Future: the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.
- Perfect: a tense which expresses an act or state completed.
- Imperfect: a tense expressing past time and incomplete action.
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Translations
- Danish: tid c, tempus n
- Faroese: tíð f
- Swedish: tempus n
- Dutch: tijd c
- Italian: tempo m
- Portuguese: tempo m
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