simple present

English

Etymology

From simple (“accompanied by no modal or auxiliary verb”) + present (“current time”).

Noun

Examples
"He likes cricket." "John said they like cricket." "In Hamlet, Ophelia drowns in a stream. "The guests arrive tomorrow."

simple present (usually uncountable, plural simple presents)

1. (grammar) The present tense; a verb or sentence in this tense.

   Synonyms: present simple, present indefinite

Translations

present tense

Chinese: Mandarin: 一般現在時 / 一般现在时 (yībān xiànzàishí) Dutch: onvoltooid tegenwoordige tijd v O.V.T. Finnish: preesens (fi) French: indicatif présent, présent (fr) German: Gegenwart (de) Italian: presente indicativo, indicativo presente Malayalam: സാധാരണവർത്തമാനകാലം (sādhāraṇavaṟttamānakālaṁ) Persian: حال ساده (fa) (hâl-e sâde) Spanish: presente (es) Vietnamese: thì hiện tại đơn

References

• simple present (English) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “simple present”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.