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Where ' 'found' ' is the passive participle of ' 'find,' ' not thepreteriteactive.
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With habitual stories, the imperfect was true, and thepreteritewas false; with one-time event stories, the preterite was true, whereas the imperfect was false.
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Note that not anypreteriteform in a subordinate clause is a relative tense form.
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Let me conclude with a brief consideration of the formation ofpreteritepresents and weak presents.
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The subjunctive andpreteriteforms are interpreted as functionally rather than merely expressionally defective in this respect.
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The first of these realignments makes everything presupposepreterite, and the second makes all the originallypreteriteforms weak.
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On the other hand, it would also be wrong to claim that there is now no relatedness between the present andpreteriteforms.
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More specifically, only one caregiver provided any examples of resultative be done, four produced completive done, and only one producedpreteritehad.
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Thirdly, thepreteriteis usually deictic whereas the perfect is prototypically nondeictic.
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Tense-aspect morphology (preteritevs. imperfect or progressive) may interact with the inherent aspectual value of verbal predicates.
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Achievements in the imperfect and states in thepreteriteare the latest to be acquired, if at all.
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The impossibility of the generic interpretation with thepreteriteis a negative constraint not easily observable from the input.
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Finally, he discusses the inadequacies of formal tense logic in distinguishing between thepreteriteand the perfect.
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Of particular interest in the current study was the present/preteritedistinction.
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In terms of expression, then, thepreterite-present paradigm is essentially composed of twopreteritesystems, one strong, the other weak.
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The syncretism we ®nd with all other verbs will affect our interpretation of other alleged instances of thepreteritesubjunctive.
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We will explain in due course why a sentence with apreteriteis not necessarily bounded.
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Thus, we assume they were grouped withpreterite-tense forms.
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In other words, learners were induced to usepreteriteas the default past-tense marker.
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Therefore, these results document once again that the imperfect tense is acquired much later than thepreteritebut that it is eventually acquired.
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Thus, saber "know" in (10) is stative in the imperfect but can become an achievement in thepreterite, receiving an inchoative interpretation, as in (11).
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Finally, imperfect morphology, but notpreterite, is linked to an empty quantifier or operator.
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Additionally, we used a cloze test to establish that all participants knew the morphological distinction betweenpreteriteand imperfect forms.
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Along with the high degree of accuracy in the use ofpreteriteverb inflections, the children also produced forms that seemed to reflect over-regularizations of documented patterns.
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The formation of thepreteriteand the past participle.
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Following a brief introductory chapter, chapter 2 reviews some previous theories concerning the use of the perfect andpreteriteand provides a theoretical grounding for the remainder of the study.
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Recall that impersonal constructions with the imperfect are ambiguous between a generic or a specific interpretation, whereas with thepreteritetense only the specific interpretation is available.
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Subsequently, thepreteriteextends to the atelic classes and the imperfect to the telic classes.
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Thus, all groups correctly interpreted the sentences in the imperfect as having a generic reading, whereas the sentences in thepreteritedid not support such an interpretation.
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In most cases, we had minimal pairs in which the imperfect tense in the first clause made the sentence logical, whereas thepreteritemade it illogical.
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Female speakers, on the other hand, more frequently combine a tag question with thepreteriteform of a modal verb that does not refer to the past, as in(c).
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The rules for the functional present system are not unfamiliar: they're (almost entirely) the rules that apply elsewhere in thepreteritesystem of ordinary strong verbs.
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The semantic convergence of perfect andpreteriteconstructions can be expressed in the predicate archetypes that define individual predicates, independently of the formal specification of their realisations.
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We find with accomplishments a larger percentage of perfective forms (9% or 9/99 for past participle and the thirdperson-singularpreterite), although not as well represented as might be expected.
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There are two voices (active and medio-passive), two moods (indicative and imperative), and two tenses (present andpreterite).
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The only common exceptions to this are the modal verbs (see the following table) and the verb "wees" be (preteriteform "was").
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First and secondpreteritehave identical stems, usually in io (occ.), and the infinitive and the past participle also have the same stem.
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Preceding thepreteriteit is and causes lenition.
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There are four inflectional forms of the verb traditionally called aorist,preterite, negativepreteriteand intensive.
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Six morphological forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods present,preterite, imperfect, pluperfect, future, and conditional.: 6.
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In total there are 6 spoken active-voice forms for each verb: infinitive, imperative, present,preterite/past, supine, and past participle.
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Note that in the historical tenses (the imperfect,preterite, and conditional), a consonant-initial stem undergoes lenition, while a vowel-initial stem is prefixed by "d".
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Thepreteriteform "would" is used in some conditional sentences, and as a past form of future "will" as described above under.
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After "went" became established as thepreteriteof "go", "wend" took on a newpreterite, "wended".
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In addition, the spelling changes when final devoicing takes place in the 1st and 3rd person singularpreteriteindicative, where appropriate.
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The grammatical gender of thepreterite-participle would be determined by the grammatical gender of the noun representing the thing that was made or done.
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The secondpreteritestem is used for second-person singular, and all persons in the plural (as well as thepreteritesubjunctive).
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The present singular is formed from the original singularpreteritestem and the present plural from the original pluralpreteritestem.
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Conjugation includes three persons, two numbers (singular and plural), three moods (indicative, imperative and subjunctive), and two tenses (present andpreterite).
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In the past tense, they use thepreteriteendings of the weak verbs.
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In the case of modal verbs the present andpreteriteforms are listed, since these are the only forms that exist.
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The first example, being thepreterite, refers only to actions completed once in the remote past, or distant past.
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The new uniformpreteritecould be based on the vowel of the oldpreteritesingular, or on the old plural, or sometimes on the participle.
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Please note the use of -ss- instead of -- in thepreteriteforms.
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In the colloquial language, the perfect is often preferred to thepreterite.
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Both forms stem from the third-person plural ("ellos, ellas, ustedes") of thepreterite.
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Preteritemay be denoted by the glossing abbreviation or.
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Use of thepreteriteis found almost exclusively with "strong" verbs, i.e. verbs involving ablaut.
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Exception: thepreteriteimpersonal neither undergoes lenition nor receives "d".
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Instead, the pluperfect, like thepreterite, is expressed using the perfect.
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First and secondpreteritehave identical stems, usually in o (occ.), and the infinitive and the past participle also have the same stem.
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Note that most of these so-calledpreteriteforms are most often used in the subjunctive mood in the present tense.
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The structure is the present tense of the main verb with eitherpreteriteof the auxiliary verb.
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The structure is the future tense of the main verb with eitherpreteriteof the auxiliary verb.
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However, the j-presents have instead taken an "o" in thepreteriteand participle, perhaps by analogy with class 2: "heben hob gehoben".
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As the only difference between the historical classes 3b and 4 was thepreteriteplural, these two classes are now identical.
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The subjunctive shows more regularity, with no stem vowel differences in singular versus plural and identical endings in both present andpreterite.
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In thepreterite, however, the paradigms fell together.
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Thepreteritesubjunctive is also increasingly being replaced by the indicative.
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Preterite-present verbs have weak past tenses, but often irregularly formed.
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Elements of both are present in thepreterite-present verbs.
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The form is derived from thepreteriteby ablaut.
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In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called "preterite") or the past participle.
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Thepreterite(as well as the perfect, when applicable) fundamentally presents an action or state as being an "event", and is thus essentially narrative.
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In the present tense, they use the "preterite" endings of the strong verbs.
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The perfective aspect is equivalent to the aspectual component of past perfective forms variously called aorist,preterite, and simple past.
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Here the word imperfect continues for the past imperfective, and the termpreteritemay be used for past perfective in contrast to the perfect.
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Thepreteriteform "might" is used as a synonym for "may" when expressing possible circumstance (as can "could" see above).
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The basic opposition is between the aorist, a non-past form which lacks further tense information, and thepreteritewhich often conveys past tense.
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In thepreterite, questions are formed with the soft mutation on the verb, though increasingly the soft mutation is being used in all situations.
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The 2nd person singularpreteriteindicative has yet another stem vowel; it is usually the same as that of thepreteritesubjunctive.
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They exhibit different stem vowels in the present andpreterite(a result of umlaut from the -jan ending).
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Two tense/aspects are morphologically distinguished, present tense andpreterite.
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Verbs are conjugated in three persons, two numbers (singular, plural), three voices (active, passive, deponent), three moods (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), and four tenses (present, future, imperfect,preterite).
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In thepreterite, the particle is used.
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Only for strong verbs, thepreterite-present verbs and some irregular weak verbs does the past subjunctive differ from the past indicative, and only in the singular form.
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The preterite's initial structure is supposed to be isomorphic with the imperfective, along the lines of above.
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There is no obvious interpretation of these features that would capture the near-synonymy of perfects and preterites.
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The occasional errors that occurred involved the use of thepreteritethird person singular inflection in place of the preterite third person plural inflection.
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Perhaps this knowledge comes from having correctly mapped thepreteriteto perfectivity (linguistic knowledge) and from knowledge of perfectivity as a cognitive universal.
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In these cases, sentences in the imperfect were true, whereas those in thepreteritewere false.
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All other speakers seemed to know the negative constraint on thepreteritebut not the ambiguity of the imperfect.
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Thepreteritedenotes the occurrence in the past of the initial phase of the state.
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At the same time, they need to realize that thepreteritedoes not allow two interpretations.
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An analysis of the appropriate use ofpreteriteand imperfect forms showed that morphology was used appropriately in almost all contexts.
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Thepreteriteis associated with given information and the narrative foreground, while the perfect is associated with new information and the narrative background.
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Analysis of thepreterite-present and weak-present verbs provides further support for this distinction in systems of category organization.
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The contrastive tense verb forms include the pastpreterite, past imperfect, periphrastic future and simple future.
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They were asked to conjugate six verbs in the first-person singular form in the present indicative,preterite, subjunctive, and future.
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