Definitions for preterits

preterits pret·er·it

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

Preterits is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in preterits (eeiprrstt).

Definitions for preterits

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 preterits

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 preterits

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Word Value for preterits
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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