simple past

See also: simple-past

English

simple past (plural simple pasts)

(grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.

the simple past tense

Danish: præteritum (da), datid (da)
Dutch: onvoltooid verleden tijd (nl) m
Esperanto: estinteco (eo), estinto, preterito (eo)
Finnish: imperfekti (fi), preteriti (fi)
French: passé (fr) m, imparfait (fr) m, passé simple (fr) m (these terms have slightly different meanings in French, they are not synonyms)
German: Präteritum (de) n
Greek: αόριστος (el) m (aóristos)
Hungarian: egyszerű múlt
Kurdish: dema borî‎ (ku) f (dema borî)
Norman: sîmpl'ye pâssé m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: preteritum n

Nynorsk: preteritum n
Persian: ماضی ساده‎ (mâzi-e sâde), گذشته ساده‎ (gozašte-ye sâde)
Portuguese: pretérito perfeito (pt) m, pretérito perfeito simples (pt) m; (the English simple past): passado simples (pt) m, pretérito simples m
Russian: просто́е проше́дшее вре́мя n (prostóje prošédšeje vrémja), проше́дшее вре́мя (ru) n (prošédšeje vrémja)
Spanish: pretérito (es)
Swedish: preteritum (sv) (imperfekt (sv))
Turkish: geçmiş zaman (tr), -di'li geçmiş zaman, geçmiş zamanın hikayesi

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