Associations to the word «Preterite»
Adverb
Wiktionary
PRETERITE, adjective. (grammar) (of a tense) showing an action at a determined moment in the past.
PRETERITE, adjective. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
PRETERITE, noun. (grammar) The preterite tense, simple past tense: the grammatical tense that determines the specific initiation or termination of an action in the past.
Dictionary definition
PRETERITE, noun. A term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.