French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	partie
	partie du discours
	partiel1
	partiel2
	parties annexes
	partitif
	passage
	passé1
	passé2
	passif
	passif sans agent
	passivation
	passiver
	pataquès
	patient

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past₁

Fr    passé₁, temps passé

nS

Synonym(s): past tense

Type of: tense₁

Source(s): Bybee etal. 1994: 55, 98 (ancient past, hodiernal past, pre-hodiernal past, hesternal past, pre-hesternal past); Comrie 1985: 19-20, 41-42; Finch 2000: 119; Halliday 1994: 201-203; Kroeger 2005: 148, 150-151 (also "far past", "removed past"); Lyons 1971: 305-306; Matthews 1997: 374; Nash 1968: 170; Pei & Gaynor 1954: 162; Quirk etal. 1985: 186 (event past, state past, habitual past); Trask 1993: 202

Sub-entries:

• immediate past
• near past
• past anterior
• past historic
• recent past
• remote past
• simple past

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English word list

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	particle1
	particle2
	partitive
	passage
	passive
	passivization
	passivize
	past1
	past2
	path
	patient
	patois1
	patois2
	patronymic
	pattern1

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