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past continuous

past continuous noun: a tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.

Noun

past continuous (uncountable)

  1. A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.
    Synonyms:
    imperfect, imperfective past, past progressive

past continuous meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Persian and Vietnamese

past continuous in Tamil

இறந்தகாலத் தொடர்ச்சி

past continuous in Malayalam

past continuous
തുടർച്ചാഭൂതകാലം tuṭaṟccābhūtakālaṁ

past continuous in Persian

past continuous
گذشته استمراری gozašte-ye estemrâri

past continuous in Vietnamese

past continuous
thì quá khứ tiếp diễn

Synonyms of past continuous

Questions about past continuous

What does past continuous mean?
Past continuous means a tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.
What is past continuous in Tamil?
Past continuous in Tamil is இறந்தகாலத் தொடர்ச்சி. See Past continuous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is past continuous?
Past continuous is a noun.

Words near past continuous in the dictionary

  1. passés
  2. past
  3. past active participle
  4. past active participles
  5. past anterior
  6. past continuous
  7. past due
  8. past exonerative
  9. past historic
  10. past historic tense
  11. past imperfect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: past continuous (page history and authors); past continuous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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