| 释义 |
past future
I. adjective
Etymology: past (I) + future, adjective
: of, relating to, or constituting a verb tense that is traditionally formed in English with would or should and denotes an action or state as future from a past point of view (as would write in “he promised that he would write”)
II. noun
1. : the past future tense of a language
2. : a verb form in the past future tense |