preterite
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Is preterite a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of preterite?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (grammar, of a tense) Showing an action at a determined moment in the past.Examples: "The Dravidian preterite tense is ordinarily formed, like the present, by annexing the pronominal signs to the preterite verbal participle."not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.Examples: "When simple verbs redouble the preterite, the compounds drop the first syllable, as: Pello, pĕpŭli, to drive away, to beat back; Repello, rĕpŭli, and not rĕpĕpŭli, to drive back, to repel."; "Nevertheless, a small amount of variation still exists in one area of standard English verbal morphology: the preterite and past participle forms of certain irregular verbs."
Definition source: Wiktionary