past historic tense

Noun

 * 1)  A tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, and in spoken language primarily when reading narrative or in storytelling, for completed actions in the past or in speaking of the dead. It is semantically the same as the simple past in many languages, including English.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 単純過去, 遠過去
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: прошедшее историческое время
 * Spanish: