The grammatical tense expressing actions which took place in the past.
1 There are no preterite storytellers, Harry; remember that.
2 Thus Ya enters into the future tense, and Zi in the preterite of all verbs requiring auxiliaries.
3 Thus, in all verbs the preterite and the past participle were the same and ended in -ED.
4 And in the preterite of the same verb, mattara, he has taken it away: mattaratit, he has taken it away from thee.
5 How can one tell the story of the finish in cold-blooded preterites ?
6 The Chayma and Tamanac verbs have an enormous complication of tenses: two Presents, four Preterites , three Futures.
7 These lines suggest that the fight between Marduk and Tiâmat was recurrent; it is incorrect to translate the verbal forms as preterites .
8 2 Give the preterites and past participles of the following verbs: lie, lay, sit, set, raise, rise, dive.
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