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tensed

tensed

1 4.5
A verb form that shows past or present time
  • adjective
  • /tɛnst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : conjugado

You, you said that ancient Hebrew doesn't have tensed terms.

Examples

  • He lay quietly, tensed, thinking.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The moon was full, and I could see that every muscle of his was tensed, hard, and motionless as stone, but pulsing with furious energy, ready to explode into action.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The teacher explained that the verb 'walked' is an example of a tensed form indicating the past.

  • In English, the words 'is' and 'are' are examples of tensed verbs that show the present tense.

  • When writing in the past tense, you must use the appropriate tensed verbs to convey the correct time.

Synonyms

tensive
vstensed
  • Specialized
9.4

About showing time in verbs, like past or future

refers specifically to verbs that show tense through inflected forms

Surface Forms

tensed positive

Morphology

tensed = tense (transparent) = tense + ed

Standard adjectival/past-participle formation from the base 'tense' with '-ed', yielding 'having grammatical tense'.

Etymology

Tensed comes from the old Latin word tempus, which means 'time'. So a tensed verb is one that shows the 'time' of an action, like past or present.