Definitions for preterit

preterit pret·er·it

Spelling: [pret-er-it]
IPA: /ˈprɛt ər ɪt/

Preterit is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in preterit (eeiprrtt).

Definitions for preterit

noun

  1. past (def 12).
  2. a preterit tense.
  3. a verb form in this tense.

adjective

  1. Grammar. noting a past action or state.
  2. Archaic. bygone; past.

Origin of preterit

1300-50; Middle English Latin praeteritus past, past participle of praeterīre to go by, equivalent to praeter- preter- + -i-, base of īre to go + -tus past particip

Examples for preterit

Its preterit is saiguitta and its gerund in Do is saiguitte.

Voi is the root of a verb which has a preterit in voita 'he was old.'

In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists.

Our verbs are observed by Dr. Wallis to be irregular only in the formation of the preterit, and its participle.

The verbal forms in-ara and-iera were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.

In life, as in (that for him more truly actual thing) literature, it was always the preterit that enthralled him.

I go come' means 'I shall go'; or, to mention the preterit, 'I go earlier' means 'I went.'

Its preterit is tonda, its gerund in Do is tonde, and its negative root is tomazu.

The present tense of each of them is in origin a preterit, in function a present.

We have also atlaça, to combat or be in agony; it means likewise to hurl or dart from the water, and in the preterit makes atlaz.

Word Value for preterit
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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