tenseless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking grammatical tense not-comparable
    — Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e., it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones.

词源

Etymology tree
English tense
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English tenseless
From tense + -less.
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