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tense

category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place
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tense

Summary

tense ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (920 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tense is a type of grammatical category[2].
  • tense is a type of tense–aspect–mood[3].
  • tense's Commons category is recorded as Grammatical tenses[4].
  • tense's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Grammatical tenses[5].
  • tense's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[6].
  • tense's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3103[7].
  • tense's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Tense[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include grammatical category[2] and tense–aspect–mood[3].

Why It Matters

tense ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (920 views/month).[1] tense has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] tense is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → grammatical category, tense–aspect–mood
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6489, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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