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tensal

tensal adjective: of or pertaining to grammatical tense.

Adjective

tensal (not comparable)

  1. of or pertaining to grammatical tense
    • Names which do not terminate in a vowel sound, require a vowel prefixed to the tensal inflection, rendering it obun, or ebun.1834, Henry Schoolcraft, Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, page 193
    • If this theory be correct, it shows that the nature of the Hebrew verb, which agrees with the Syriac and Arabic verb, is rather modal than tensal, and differs widely from that of the verb in the Greek, Latin, and modern languages of Europe.1865, Francis Barham, “History of the Hebrew philology”, in The Fortnightly, volume 3, Review, page 571

Origin of tensal

From tense + -al.

Questions about tensal

What does tensal mean?
Tensal means of or pertaining to grammatical tense.
What part of speech is tensal?
Tensal is an adjective.

Words near tensal in the dictionary

  1. Tenrikyoist
  2. Tenrikyoists
  3. Tenrikyō
  4. tens
  5. tens across the board
  6. tensal
  7. tensan
  8. Tensas Parish
  9. Tensaw
  10. Tensaws
  11. tenscore

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