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tense adjective

  /tɛns/
  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
  • (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
 напряжённый
  • Pulled taut, without any slack.
 натя́нутый, туго́й

tenseness

напряжённость

tense noun

  /tɛns/
  • (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
 вре́мя, время
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