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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈbækʃɪft/

名詞

backshift (countable and uncountable, plural backshifts)

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

動詞

backshift (third-person singular simple present backshifts, present participle backshifting, simple past and past participle backshifted)

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.