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past tense

grammatical tense
Thing tense Q1994301
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Summary

past tense is a tense[1]. It draws 859 Wikipedia views per month (tense category, ranking #5 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: grammeme[3]
  • Subclass of: inflected form[4]
  • Said to be the same as: remote tense[5]
  • Opposite of: nonpast tense[6]
  • Topic has template: Template:past tense of[7]
  • Has characteristic: past[8]
  • Equivalent class: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133107167[9]
  • Short name: PST[10]
  • Different from: Czas przeszły (ujednoznacznienie)[11], remote tense[12]
  • Exact match: http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#past[13]
  • P14892: PastTense[14]

Why It Matters

past tense has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 3378, 4321
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'br', 'ca', 'cv', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'gd', 'hi',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 4321, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7329510|past (#7329510)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 23d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14892 → PastTense
    Equivalent class → http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133107167
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/PastTense"
  3. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133107167
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133107167"
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