English-Hungarian translations for past tense

• múlt idő
  Az idő tovább haladt, így a szót múlt időbe kell tenni. Time has moved on, so it needs to be put in the past tense.
• múltidő

Definition of past tense

• A grammatical form that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened , or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time
• A grammatical form that is used in a conditional expression to refer to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that is hypothetical and often counterfactual

Examples

• Example: "I saw the #5 bus across the street. I didn’t make it."
• Example: "If I spoke Japanese I would be happy to visit Japan."

Related words

• simple past tense
• past historic tense
• past imperfect tense