tenses

Meaning of tenses

noun
  1. (grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
  2. (grammar) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
    English only has a present tense and a past tense; it has no future tense.
  3. The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
    Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
verb
  1. (grammar) To apply a tense to.
    tensing a verb

verb

To make or become tense.

Information about tenses

Hyphenation of tenses

tenses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tenses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of tenses

sneest, Steens, steens

Words that rhyme with tenses

Hanses, cadranses, cleanses, contradanses, contredanses, expanses, hanses, kanses, kranses, manses, orleanses, perforanses, ranses, schanses, sextanses, transes, xeranses, Albanenses, Albigenses, Ramnenses, Waldenses, albigenses, amanuenses, atrienses, avenses, censes, chinenses, condenses, defenses, dickenses, dispenses, elevenses, expenses, flenses, frankincenses, impatienses, incenses, lenses, licenses, menses, miliarenses, missenses, nonsenses, offenses, prepenses, pretenses, protenses, quatertenses, recenses, recompenses

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