Noun: tense
| Singular | tense |
| Plural | tenses |
Sample Sentences
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Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
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English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.
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In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation
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I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] [1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:]
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The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.
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The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.
Nouns inflected like tense
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus. See: Middle English Nouns '
tens', French Nouns '
temps', Latin Nouns '
tempus'.