simple past
Noun
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Noun
simple past (plural simple pasts)
- (grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
- French: passé, imparfait, passé simple (these terms have slightly different meanings in French, they are not synonyms)
- German: Präteritum
- Portuguese: pretérito perfeito, pretérito perfeito simples; (the English simple past): passado simples, pretérito simples
- Russian: просто́е проше́дшее вре́мя
- Spanish: pretérito
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