aorist tenses
aorist tenses is the plural of aorist tense.
Meaning of aorist tense
Noun
aorist tense (countable and uncountable, plural aorist tenses)
- A grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense of verbs; the aorist.
- A set of verb forms in Ancient Greek featuring the grammatical category.
- Of the Aorist Tense, as of the Perfect, there are two distinct forms: the older form, commonly called the Second Aorist; and the more recent, commonly called the First Aorist1857, Joseph Gouge Greenwood, The Elements of Greek Grammar, London: Walton, →OCLC, page 94
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- Aorist tenses is the plural of aorist tense.
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