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present tenses

present tenses is the plural of present tense.

Meaning of present tense

Noun

present tense (plural present tenses)

  1. A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.
    • Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order...1998 March 30, Lance Morrow, “The Trouble With The Present Tense”, in Time
    Synonyms:
    present

Questions about present tenses

What is present tenses the plural of?
Present tenses is the plural of present tense.

Words near present tenses in the dictionary

  1. present simples
  2. present subjunctive
  3. present subjunctives
  4. present system
  5. present tense
  6. present tenses
  7. present value
  8. present values
  9. present-day
  10. present-participial
  11. presentability

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