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nonpast

Meaning of "nonpast" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF NONPAST

ˌnɒnˈpɑːst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONPAST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonpast is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NONPAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nonpast in the English dictionary

The definition of nonpast in the dictionary is a tense that is not the past tense, a non-past tense.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NONPAST

antepast · avast · Belfast · blast · broadcast · cast · contrast · fast · forecast · forepast · gast · last · mast · outcast · overcast · past · podcast · repast · unsurpassed · vast

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONPAST

nonparallel · nonparametric · nonparametric statistics · nonparasitic · nonpareil · nonparent · nonparity · nonparous · nonparticipant · nonparticipating · nonpartisan · nonpartisanship · nonpartizan · nonpartizanship · nonparty · nonpasserine · nonpassive · nonpathogenic · nonpaying · nonpayment

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONPAST

antispast · at least · at long last · at the least · breakfast · bypast · coast · compast · deep in the past · east · feast · fly-past · in the least · least · march past · Middle East · the Far East · the last · the past · to say the least

Synonyms and antonyms of nonpast in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonpast» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF NONPAST

Find out the translation of nonpast to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of nonpast from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nonpast» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

nonpast
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

no pasado
570 millions of speakers
en

English

nonpast
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

गैर-भूत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nonpast
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

nonpast
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

nonpast
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

nonpast
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

nonpast
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Nonpast
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

nonpast
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

非過去
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

nonpast
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nonpast
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nonpast
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கடந்தகாலமற்றது
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

नॉनपास्ट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

nonpast
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

nonpast
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

nonpast
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

nonpast
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

nonpast
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nonpast
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonpast
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonpast
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonpast
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonpast

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONPAST»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nonpast

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONPAST»

Discover the use of nonpast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nonpast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Modality, Futurity and Dependent Tense: The Semantics of the ...
For Giannakidou, the nonpast supplies the future-moving and, crucially, dependent time variable. She analyses future structures in Greek by arguing that the Greek particle tha introduces the utterance time n as the needed left boundary of the ...
Andjelka Gina Bulatovic, 2008
2
Modality Mood & Aspect Mon 11
do" are as follows: Aux V (i) zero past °amal "he did" (i) zero zero-nonpast yi°rnil " he does, etc." (iii) zero b-nonpast biyi °mil "he does, is doing" (iv) zero ha-nonpast hayi “mil "he is going to do, will do" (v) past past kaan °amal "he had done" (vi) ...
Mitchell,, 2013
3
On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax
-to -to-ine Med.Past.Cont. -ijl-i)l-ne/-neij -se-ij Dist.Past.Compl/Hope -ya -ya-:to-i) Nonpast -ya-no -ya-:to-tj Nonpast.Uncert -take -ta-:to-g Put. -yakoij -ya-to-kotj Med.Past.Compl. -ya-ine -ya-to-ine Habitual Carijona -0 -ta-wi Rec.Past -ne — Dist.
Spike Gildea, 1998
4
Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference
The nonpast imperfective, in turn, is characterized as designating a process whose temporal expanse is coextensive with the time of speaking. In the case of the basic meaning of the nonpast imperfective, this process is located in actuality.
Frank Brisard, 2002
5
Development of Verb Inflection in First Language ...
... without pre-existing programs or prescribed processes” (Gathercole, Sebastian , and Soto 1999: 161)."8 Appendix Christos' two-member paradigms from 1:11 to 2:1 Age Lemma Gloss Form Category 1:11 kano do kani NONPAST:3S kakani ...
Dagmar Bittner, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Marianne Kilani-Schoch, 2003
6
Formulaic Language
Test items Target contexts Correct forms Number of items Nonpast imperfective Nonpast imperfective Nonpast habitual Nonpast habitual Past habitual ( Resultative state) (Progressive) Simple nonpast Simple past -te i-ru 9 -ru 16 -ta 17 -te i-ru 9 ...
Roberta Corrigan, 2009
7
Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and Other South ...
karanawa 'do' adinawa 'pull ' teerenawa 'understand' Tense Forms (built on i tense themes) Basic nonpast past karanawa kerua adinawa xdda teerenawa teeruna Emphatic nonpast past karanne kerue adinne cedde teerenne teerune ...
James W. Gair, Barbara Lust, 1998
8
Time in Child Inuktitut: A Developmental Study of an ...
Temporal reference in many Indo- European languages is based on a past- nonpast distinction, with the nonpast subsuming present and future reference. In languages with a past-nonpast split, the present tense can be used with future time ...
Mary D. Swift, 2004
9
Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical ...
However, crucially this cannot explain why the past tense form is associated with the 1S and the nonpast tense form with the 3S, and not the other way around. A theory of the speaker's perspective can provide a satisfying answer to the ...
Sh?ichi Iwasaki, 1993
10
Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian ...
Examples: tholhth 'fall (Imperative)', thilhth 'fall (Past)', tholh+l 'fall (Nonpast)'; lanhth 'spear repeatedly (Imperative and Past)', lanh+l 'spear (Nonpast)'; parrw ' camp (Imperative)', pirrw 'carnp (Past)', parr+l 'camp (Nonpast)'. The main entry for ...
Barry Alpher, 1991
REFERENCE
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