Spanish-English translations for pretérito

• preterite
  I believe that History is not only written as a narrative using the preterite tense. Yo creo que la Historia no se escribe solamente narrando y evocando el pretérito.
• simple past
• past
  I think the economic crisis has forced us to take a long, hard look at our past economic behaviour. Creo que la crisis económica nos ha obligado a echar un vistazo largo y duro a nuestro comportamiento económico pretérito.
  It is time to review these positions and, lastly, we must hold on to the past achievements of these countries, of Tunisia, Egypt and so on. Es hora de revisar esas posiciones y, por último, debemos aferrarnos a los logros pretéritos de estos países, de Túnez, de Egipto y de otros.
  a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
• past historic tense
• past simple
• past tense
  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

• preterito
• copretérito
• antecopretérito
• pretérito perfecto
• pretérito anterior
• pretérito imperfecto
• pretérito indefinido
• pretérito pluscuamperfecto
• pretérito perfecto simple