tense
The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
Example
“Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.”
Other meanings
An form of a verb that indicates .
A grammatical .
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "tempus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tense” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.