English-Hungarian translations for tense

• feszült
  A tibeti helyzet soha nem volt még ilyen feszült. The situation in Tibet has never been so tense.
  Az Iránnal fennálló kapcsolataink nagyon nehéz és feszült időszakba léptek. We are going through a very difficult and tense period with Iran.
  Soha nem fogom elfelejteni ezt a találkozásunkat, mivel a helyzet rendkívül feszült volt. I will never forget our meeting, as the situation was extremely tense.
• igeidő

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