Preterit vs. Preterite

Preteritadjective

Past; - applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

Preteriteadjective

showing an action at a determined moment in the past.

Preteritadjective

Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

‘Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa.’;

Preteriteadjective

Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

Preteritnoun

The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Preteritenoun

(grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.

Preteritnoun

a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense

Preteriteadjective

Same as Preterit.

Preteritenoun

a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense

Preterite

The preterite or preterit (; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past. In general, it combines the perfective aspect (event viewed as a single whole; it is not to be confused with the similarly named perfect) with the past tense, and may thus also be termed the perfective past.