a verb tense indicating that an action is finished or complete.

a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past.

a weak, unspecific, grammatical morpheme which is used highly schematically and which is not only used when it is necessary, so that it may even seem redundant next to a strong sign with more specific content ( Yesterday I went to town )

See Preterite Indicative

Shows things that happened in the past.