Question

What is the past tense of the word “regret” ?

Answer 1

Hint: The past tense is a grammatical tense that refers to an event or circumstance that occurred in the past. It thus provides a grammatical way of showing that the occurrence being referred to occurred in the past in languages that have a past tense.

Complete answer:
Tense -
i) Tense is a category in grammar that expresses time reference. The use of specific forms of verbs, especially in their conjugation patterns, is generally how tenses are expressed.
ii) The past, present, and future are the three primary tenses used in many languages. There are only two tenses in certain languages, such as past and nonpast, or future and nonfuture.

In English, there are three primary verb tenses: present, past, and future. There are four dimensions to the present, past, and future tenses: basic, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive. English learners should be aware of the 12 main verb tenses.

Past tense –
The past tense is used to describe events that occurred in the past. In English, the past tense is formed by taking the present tense of a word and adding the suffix -ed. To make the past tense of the verb "walk," for example, add -ed to form "walked."
Regret is expressed in the past tense as regretted.
Use in a sentence:
-In the present tense, regret is:
-I regret not stretching out after my workout.
-To show that you regretted doing something in the past:
-I regretted not stretching out after my workout.

Therefore the past tense of ‘regret’ is Regretted.


Note: There are also tenseless languages, such as most Chinese languages, but they may have a future and nonfuture system like Sino-Tibetan languages. Bittner and Tonnhauser's recent work have identified the various ways in which tenseless languages nonetheless mark time. Some languages, on the other hand, distinguish between finer tense distinctions, such as distant vs recent past or close vs distant future.