English-Finnish translations for past historic tense

• preteriti
  Juoksin on juosta-verbin preteritin yksikön ensimmäisen persoonan indikatiivi.

Definition of past historic tense

• A tense used in some languages in narrative, and in spoken language primarily when reading narrative or in storytelling, for completed actions in the past or in speaking of the dead. It is semantically the same as the simple past in many languages, including English

Related words

• past historic
• whistle past the graveyard
• thing of the past
• pastorship
• highland pasture