tense
noun/tens/
/tens/
(grammar)- any of the forms of a verb that may be used to show the time of the action or state expressed by the verb
- the past/present/future tense
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagea1- ‘Have’ is the auxiliary verb used to form perfect tenses.
- In the sentence ‘I fed the cat’, ‘fed’ is in the past tense.
- the present tense marker ‘s’
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- future
- past
- present
- …
- use
- form
- marker
- in the… tense
Word Originnoun Middle English (in the general sense ‘time’): from Old French tens, from Latin tempus ‘time’.
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