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Meanings of preterite in English

Russian
претерит
Portuguese
preterito
Spanish
pretérito perfecto simple
Catalan
pretèrit perfet simple

The grammatical tense expressing actions which took place in the past.

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претерит
Usage of preterite in English
1
There are no preterite storytellers, Harry; remember that.
The dream of perpetual motion
2
Thus Ya enters into the future tense, and Zi in the preterite of all verbs requiring auxiliaries.
The Coming Race
3
Thus, in all verbs the preterite and the past participle were the same and ended in -ED.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
4
And in the preterite of the same verb, mattara, he has taken it away: mattaratit, he has taken it away from thee.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
5
How can one tell the story of the finish in cold-blooded preterites?
A Mortal Antipathy
6
The Chayma and Tamanac verbs have an enormous complication of tenses: two Presents, four Preterites, three Futures.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
7
These lines suggest that the fight between Marduk and Tiâmat was recurrent; it is incorrect to translate the verbal forms as preterites.
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
8
2 Give the preterites and past participles of the following verbs: lie, lay, sit, set, raise, rise, dive.
Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English / Based on the Require...