| 单词 | third preterite |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthird preterite d. Grammar. In third person: see person n. 8. Also in third declension, third conjugation, and in names of tenses, as third future, third preterite, where the reference is to a conventional order of enumeration adopted by grammarians. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 93 In verbes of theyr thyrde conjugation I fynde a litell more difficultie. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. T1 He had..forgotten in speaking of him selfe to vse the third person. 1764 W. Primatt Accentus Redivivi 111 Provided they were third persons plural. 1848 J. T. White Xenophon's Anab. (1872) ii. iv. §5 Notes 116 Sometimes..the third future is used, instead of the common future, to point out more forcibly all but immediate occurrence of some future action. 1857 M. Williams Sanskrit Gram. §415 Fortunately..the third preterite occurs but rarely in the better specimens of Hindú composition. < as lemmas |
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