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Present tense   /prˈɛzənt tɛns/   Listen
Present tense

noun
1.
A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking.  Synonym: present.





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"Present tense" Quotes from Famous Books



... proceed to the second. Belle, I will now select for you to conjugate the prettiest verb in Armenian; not only of the second, but also of all the four conjugations; that verb is siriel. Here is the present tense:—siriem, siries, sire, siriemk, sirek, sirien. You observe that it runs on just in the same manner as hntal, save and except that e is substituted for a; and it will be as well to tell you that almost the only difference between the second, third, and ...
— Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow
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