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present tense

grammatical tense; pertaining to current time relative to speaker/writer/reader
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present tense

Summary

present tense is a tense[1]. It draws 327 Wikipedia views per month (tense category, ranking #7 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • present tense's instance of is recorded as tense[3].
  • present tense's instance of is recorded as grammeme[4].
  • present tense is a type of inflected form[5].
  • present tense's said to be the same as is recorded as non-remote tense[6].
  • present tense is the opposite of nonpresent tense[7].
  • present tense's topic's main category is recorded as Q33031388[8].
  • present tense's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'PRS'}[9].
  • present tense's different from is recorded as present[10].
  • present tense's different from is recorded as presence[11].
  • present tense's different from is recorded as non-remote tense[12].
  • present tense's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#present[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include tense[3] and grammeme[4]. present tense is a type of inflected form[5]. It is the opposite of nonpresent tense[7].

Why It Matters

present tense draws 327 Wikipedia views per month (tense category, ranking #7 of 20).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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] ↑ . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → non-remote tense
    Opposite of → nonpresent tense
    Subclass of → inflected form
    Instance of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20066, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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