English Explanatory Dictionary

secondary tense

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Latin, the perfect, imperfect or pluperfect tense.
  2. In Greek, the aorist, imperfect or pluperfect tense.
  3. In English, the analytic distinction between perfect and non-perfect verb phrases.

Word forms

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