HyperDic: progressive_tense

English > 1 sense of the expression progressive tense:
NOUNrelationprogressive tense, progressive, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tensea tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
English > progressive tense: 1 sense > noun 1, relation
MeaningA tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.
Synonymsprogressive, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense
Narrowerfuture progressive, future progressive tenseA progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future
past progressive, past progressive tenseA progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past
present progressive, present progressive tenseA tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance
BroadertenseA grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Spanishimperfecto
Catalanimperfet

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