preterite
英式音标：preterite怎么读
美式音标：preterite怎么读
preterite词义
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n. 过去时态（等于preterit）；过去式adj. 过去时态的
preterite英文词源
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- preterite (adj.)
- mid-14c., "having to do with the past," from Old French preterit "past tense" (13c.) and directly from Latin praeteritum (as in tempus praeteritum "time past"), past participle of praeterire "to go by, go past," from praeter "beyond, before, above, more than" (see prae-) + itum, past participle of ire "to go" (see ion). Grammar sense is late 14c. The word also was a noun in Middle English meaning "past times" (late 14c.). Related: Preteritive. Preterite-present attested from 1813.