English-Dutch translations for tense

• gespannen
  Ik wil niet opnieuw voor zo'n gespannen situatie zorgen. I do not want to reopen that tense situation.
  De situatie in Tibet is nog nooit zo gespannen geweest. The situation in Tibet has never been so tense.
  De huidige situatie in Zuid-Ossetië is gespannen. The current situation in South Ossetia is tense.
• opspannen
• spannen
• strak
• tempus
• tijd
  De tijd is voortgeschreden, dus moet de formulering in de verleden tijd staan. Time has moved on, so it needs to be put in the past tense.
  Ik stel voor om onder de punten i), ii) en iii) de toekomende tijd te vervangen door de verleden tijd. I propose that the future tense be replaced by the perfect tense for points i), ii) and iii).
  We maken nu een heel moeilijke en gespannen tijd door met Iran. We are going through a very difficult and tense period with Iran.

Definition of tense

• Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists
• An form of a verb that indicates tense
• The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists
• To apply a tense to
• Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed
• Pulled taut, without any slack
• To make or become tense

Examples

• English only has a present tense and a past tense; it has no future tense.
• Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
• tensing a verb
• You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense

Related words

• pretense
• intense
• intensely
• tenseness
• tensely
• hypertense
• tensed
• intenseness
• tenseless