tense

Etymology 1
From, from (modern 🇨🇬), from. .

Noun

 * 1)  Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
 * 2)  An  form of a verb that indicates tense.
 * 3)  The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
 * 1)  The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
 * 1)  The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
 * 1)  The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Usage notes

 * Some English-language authorities only consider inflected forms of verbs (i.e. the present and past tenses) as tenses, and not periphrastic forms such as the simple future with.
 * Grammatically tense (the location of an event in time: past, present, future) is often distinguished from aspect (how an event occurs or is viewed by the speaker: finished, ongoing, habitual, etc.). So I am eating and I was eating have different tenses (present and past) but the same aspect (continuous), whereas I was eating and I had eaten have the same tense (past) and different aspects (continuous and perfect). However, it is common in English (especially in language teaching) to refer to aspects as tenses (e.g. the perfect tense, the continuous tense).

Related terms

 * See: Category:en:Tenses

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, tempus
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صِيغَة, صِيغَةُ الْفِعْل,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: час
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash: вӑхӑт
 * Czech:, slovesný čas
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: ajavorm, ,
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, temps verbal
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χρόνος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: aimsir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: шақ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: време
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: wā, wātū, wāheke , wāmua
 * Middle English: tens
 * Norman: temps du vèrbe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tempus
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: време, вријеме
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, tiempo gramatical
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དུས་གསུམ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: زامان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1)  To apply a tense to.
 * tensing a verb

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, one form of the past participle of. Ultimately identical to Etymology 1.

Adjective

 * 1) Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
 * 2) Pulled taut, without any slack.
 * 3)  Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
 * 1) Pulled taut, without any slack.
 * 2)  Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: gespanne, styf
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: napjatý
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: pingne, pinev
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: upptrekktur,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: напнат
 * Maori: āmaimai
 * Plautdietsch: stiew
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: напружений


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Estonian: pinguletõmmatud
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: тугий, натя́гнутий


 * Georgian:

Verb

 * 1)  To make tense.
 * 2)  To become tense.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, напрягам
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: napnout
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: pinguldama, pingulduma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Polish: naprężać, naprężyć
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: напру́жувати, напру́жити


 * Bulgarian: напрягам се
 * Finnish: jännittyä
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Polish: naprężać, naprężyć
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: напру́жуватися, напру́житися