Crossword-Solution: PRETERIT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Preterit | a. | Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past. |
| Preterit | a. | Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. |
| Preterit | n. | The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRETERIT | anagram | PRETTIER |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PRETERIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A past tense | 1 answer |
| Past tense in grammar | 1 answer |
| Signifying past time: Gram. | 1 answer |
| The past tense | 1 answer |
| Verb tense expressing the past | 1 answer |
| Belonging to the past | 2 answers |
| Verb tense | 2 answers |
| Verb for the past | 2 answers |
| Past tense | 10 answers |
| VERB form | 18 answers |
| Pass on | 81 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with PRETERIT (5)
Fytte VII Cito Pede Preterit Aetas [A Philosophical Dissertation] "Gillian's dead, God rest her bier-- How I loved her many years syne; Marion's married, but I sit here, Alive and merry at three-score year, Dipping my nose in Gascoigne wine."--Wamba's Song--Thackeray.
Moreover when they tell me, one tells me the word in the infinitive mood, another in the indicative; one in the first, another in the second person; one in the present, another in the preterit.
Explained by the Gloss as equivalent to _onetlanauiloc_, an impersonal, passive, preterit, from _naua_, "it was danced." The peculiar sacred dance called _tlanaua_, performed by young girls, is described by Sahagun, Lib.
Verbs have only two tenses inflected in their terminations, the present, and simple preterit; the other tenses are compounded of the auxiliary verbs, have, shall, will, let, may, can, and the infinitive of the active or neuter verb.
The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1967–2022).