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tense

category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place
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Summary

tense ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,730 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: grammatical category[2], tense–aspect–mood[3]
  • Commons category: Grammatical tenses[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Grammatical tenses[5]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[6]
  • Main Wikidata property: P3103[7]
  • Exact match: http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Tense[8]

Why It Matters

tense has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] tense is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). tense. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tense
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_tense_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{tense}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/tense}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-27}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 75
    Isocat id → 1286, 2529, 4964 +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'ba', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv', 'da',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||tw, as, th, ro */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 15d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1286, 2529, 4964 +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 4964, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7329998|verb tense (#7329998)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 16d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1286, 2529, 4964 +1
    Sitelink count → 75
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'ba', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv', 'da',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2529, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327841|tense (#7327841)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0266037-slovesny-cas
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0266037-slovesny-cas, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → grammatical category, tense–aspect–mood
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 6489, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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