past tense

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌpast ˈtense noun [countable]  a form of a verb that shows that something happened or existed before the present time, typically a form such as ‘walked’, as in ‘I walked away’ 〔动词的〕过去式

Examples from the Corpus

past tense• The former wrote of the apostles in the past tense.• This is written in paragraphs explaining in the past tense what has been seen.• For the next three weeks my career was in the past tense.• For instance, the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive.• Humans have no problem in determining that this is the past tense of the verb preach.

ˌpast ˈtense nounChineseSyllable  

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past tense
ˌpast ˈtense noun [countable]
a form of a verb that shows that something happened or existed before the present time, typically a form such as ‘walked’, as in ‘I walked away’