In the 17th century, the language was already very similar to its present-day form, although two of the past tenses were still used.

Past tenses are found in a variety of Asian languages.

In Ukrainian, the indicative mood contains the present, future, and past tenses.

The indicative mood has four tenses: present, future, and two past tenses.

Their past tenses are formed like weak verbs'.

Both races were also becoming more and more fluent in English, though they had trouble with past tenses of verbs.

Historically, there were two past tenses.

These rules are related to the 't kofschip-rule, which is used to determine the verb end for past tenses and participles.

There are four past tenses.

Review units comparing and contrasting large areas of study, such as present and past tenses, future forms and linking words.

Present and past tenses are unmarked in the language, and are distinguished by actual statements of time using words like "yesterday" or "today."

The indicative of past tenses adds (conceptually, at least) a prefix /e-/, called the augment.

Both Eastern and Western feature one present, one future, and two past tenses (imperfect, preterite).

For example, bore and found may be past tenses of bear and find, but may also represent independent (regular) verbs of different meaning.

An exception occurs when a completed action is reported in any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present perfect or past perfect).

But for the most part "Past Tense" abounds in paradoxical turns of phrase that designate an absentee or intimate an unfathomable depth.

These will include forms of the verb to be, past tenses of a few highly frequent irregular verbs (e.g. do,see ), personal pronouns and negatives.

There are several verbal suffixes for both the future and past tenses, with allomorphs of all three of the future tense suffix markers .

In the past tenses (aorist and imperfect) and in the past participle the stress falls always on the ending and not on the stem.

The present and first past tenses are inflected, while the second and third past and both future tenses are different words marked by auxiliary verbs.

(The forms could, might, should and would are considered to be the past tenses of can, may, shall and will respectively, although they are not always used as such.)

In French language, it is a generally found denotation as many words, such as masculine and feminine adjective endings, or the past tenses of some verbs, are homophone.

The words and rules model contradicts previous ideas (both connectionist and orthodox Chomskyan) hypothesizing that irregular past tenses are the result of rules applied based on phonological similarities.

He performed several songs from his new album, "Past Tense," at a recent Sunday afternoon concert at Manhattanville College here, where he is an adjunct professor in the music department.

The basic present and past tenses of the verb are called simple present (present simple) and simple past (past simple), to distinguish them from progressive or other compound forms.

Now was not the time to put that in the past tense.

Teraz nie był czasem umieścić to w czasie przeszłym.

I'm using the past tense because this no longer works.

Używam czasu przeszłego ponieważ to już nie pracuje.

By the way, the questions were all written in the past tense.

A propos, pytania były wszystkim napisanym w czasie przeszłym.

And of course this is all in the past tense.

I oczywiście to jest wszystko w czasie przeszłym.

Time has moved on, so it needs to be put in the past tense.

Czas minął więc to potrzebuje zostać umieszczonym w czasie przeszłym.

It may be too soon to write in the past tense.

To może mieć też niedługo wpisać czas przeszły.

It is the past tense of a future that will never be.

To jest czas przeszły przyszłości, która nigdy nie będzie.

"How come you never use the past tense in your stories?"

"Dlaczego nigdy nie używasz czasu przeszłego w swoich historiach?"

You may wonder why I have used the past tense.

Możesz zastanawiać się dlaczego użyłem czasu przeszłego.

"But why do you speak always of her in the past tense, as though she were dead?"

"Ale dlaczego mówisz zawsze z niej w czasie przeszłym, jak jednak ona nie żyły?"

You have to start a novel using the past tense.

Musisz zacząć powieść używającą czasu przeszłego.

Two years ago, his career was described in the past tense.

Dwa lata temu, jego kariera została opisana w czasie przeszłym.

The rest of the novel is in the past tense.

Reszta powieści jest w czasie przeszłym.

His use of the past tense is not lost on the jury.

Jego wykorzystanie czasu przeszłego nie zostanie przegrane na ławie przysięgłych.

I'm writing about this in the past tense, but some of it is still going on.

Piszę na temat tego w czasie przeszłym ale jakieś z tego nadaje wciąż.

He's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense.

On żyje wciąż a jednak kontynuuję myślenie o nim w czasie przeszłym.

The past tense is used for actions in a time which has already happened.

Czas przeszły jest używany dla czynów za czas, który już zdarzył się.

The tears were still coming and the past tense was not lost on her.

Łzy wciąż przychodziły i czas przeszły nie zgubił się na nią.

He was speaking of his son and daughter in the past tense as though they were already dead.

Mówił o jego synu i córce w czasie przeszłym jakby nie żyli już.

"Why are you speaking of him in the past tense?"

"Dlaczego mówisz o nim w czasie przeszłym?"

Why would she think about Carlos in the past tense?

Dlaczego pomyślałaby o Carlosie w czasie przeszłym?

But when he spoke of the site, it was in the past tense.

Gdy jednak mówił o miejscu, to było w czasie przeszłym.

But they spoke of their science in the past tense, as if it had died.

Ale mówili o swojej nauce w czasie przeszłym, jakby to umarło.

But hopefully we'll be talking about these both as being in the past tense next week.

Ale przy odrobinie szczęścia będziemy rozmawiać około te obydwa jako bycie w czasie przeszłym w przyszłym tygodniu.

The Story is mainly told in the past tense from a third person point of view.

Historii mówią głównie w czasie przeszłym z trzeciej osoby punkt widzenia.