English-Spanish translations for preterite

• pretérito
  Yo creo que la Historia no se escribe solamente narrando y evocando el pretérito. I believe that History is not only written as a narrative using the preterite tense.
• preterito

Definition of preterite

• showing an action at a determined moment in the past
• Belonging wholly to the past; passed by
• The preterite tense, simple past tense: the grammatical tense that determines the specific initiation or termination of an action in the past

Related words

• preterit
• preterition
• preterit stem
• preterite-present verb
• preterite stem