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Things preterit often describes ("preterit ________")
How preterit often is described ("________ preterit")
- third
- regular
- english
- spanish
- present
- negative
- simple
- perfective
- passive
- dubitative
- germanic
- old
- only
- plural
- archaic
- strong
- ordinary
- ante
- synthetic
- notional
- obsolete
- irregular
- past
- anomalous
- indirect
- expanded
- imperfect
- imperfective
- dental
- singular
- post
- epic
- correct
- colloquial
- imaginative
- weak
- sir
- standard
