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untensed en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + tensed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not tensed.
    • The relevant point, though, is that there is a clear distinction between untensed and tensed clauses as far as the parasitic gap phenomenon is concerned[…] 1993, William J. Ashby, Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages, page 251: