Past time

In some languages, verbs may have several different past tenses. Often this category is represented by a narrative (narrative, otherwise - a preterit) and a non-narrative (actual) past tense.

In turn, narrative time can take different forms, for example:

• aorist - to designate an event as a link in a sequence of other events;
• imperfect - to indicate an event that is simultaneous to other events;
• pluperfect - to indicate an event that preceded in relation to a certain situation in the past.

Elapsed time in Russian

In Russian, one form of past tense, which, however, can take on a perfect or imperfect form .

The past tense in Russian is formed by the suffix -l , which replaces the infinitive postfix -t: pi-pi l ; summer be - summer l . In the feminine gender, the vowel a is added to the suffix -l: it shone — it glowed , and on average — o: it glowed — it glowed.

The perfect past time differs from the imperfect by the prefix you-, behind- or s-: ate - with ate, choked (beat) - for choked (hammered), drank (taught) - you drank (learned).

There are irregular forms of the verb: go, but walked (pr.v. from go)

Elapsed time in English

In modern English there are several forms of the past tense:

• Past Indefinite (Simple) - formed using the verb in the second form. Example: Yesterday I was very happy - Yesterday I was very happy.
• Past Continuous - “long” time, describes events that took place some time in the past. It is formed with the help of the verb forms to be , was / were , after the subject, the verb takes the ending -ing . Example: You were watching TV all night - You watched TV all night.
• Present Perfect - presently perfect, in English formally is the present tense . It is formed with the help of the auxiliary verb have / has and the verb of the third form (V + ed for regular verbs). Example: Have you ever been to Moscow? - Have you ever been to Moscow?
• Past Perfect - a paste of perfection used to denote the action of what happened in the past, before some other action that happened also in the past. It is formed with the help of the verb form to have , had , after the subject and the verb in the third form. Example: I had been at school, by the beginning of the 4th lesson - I was at school by the beginning of 4th lesson.
• Present Perfect Continuous - describes events that have lasted for some time in the past and have lasted until now. It is formed with the help of the construction have / has been + verb with an ing -th ending. Example: I have been playing football since 2011 - I have been playing football since 2011.
• Past Perfect Continuous - describes an action that took place from one to some other point in the past. It is formed with the help of the form had been and the verb with the ending -ing . Example: She taught her English for three years until she began to attend Spanish courses.

Elapsed time in German

In German, past tense is represented by three forms:

• Präteritum is a simple past tense. It is formed from the basis of the second form of the verb with the suffix -te- with personal endings (for weak verbs) or a tabular variant. Example, Mein Vater saß hier heute - today my father was sitting here.
• Perfekt - difficult past time. It is formed with the help of the auxiliary verbs haben or sein and the form Partizip II semantic verb. Example: Ich bin so langsam gegangen! - I walked so slowly!
• Plusquamperfekt is a complex past tense, meaning a long time ago action. Often used relative to other forms to identify the time difference between two actions. It forms like Perfekt with the help of the auxiliary verbs haben and sein with Partizip II, but the auxiliary verb is always in the form of Präteritum. Example: Du hattest erschreckliche Dinge getan! - You did terrible things!

Past tense in french

In French, past times are:

• Imparfait .
• Passé simple .
• Passé composé . Feature - présent auxiliary verb.
• Plus-que-parfait . Feature - imparfait auxiliary verb.
• Passé anterieur . The peculiarity is the passé simple auxiliary verb.
• Passé immediat . Feature - présent of the verb venir + de + infinitif
• Imperatif passé .
• Conditionnel passé Ier et IIe forme .
• Subjonctif passé , Subjonctif imparfait , Subjonctif plus-que-parfait

Past tense in ancient greek language

In ancient Greek , three types of historical times are referred to past times - aorist, imperfect and pluperfect, as well as one of the so-called main times, perfect .

• Time (linguistics)
• Present tense
• Future time
• Time Category in German

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• The Past Indefinite Tense
• Summary table of tenses in English
• German Progressive Course
• French Times