past historic tense
Noun
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Noun
past historic tense
- (grammar) A tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, and in spoken language primarily when reading narrative or in storytelling, for completed actions in the past or in speaking of the dead. It is semantically the same as the simple past in many languages, including English.
- French: passé simple
- Italian: passato remoto
- Portuguese: pretérito perfeito
- Spanish: pretérito
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