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Simple past

Quality:

Simple past - basic form of the past tense. Article "Simple past" in English Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 5 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Simple past", its content was written by 108 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 478 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 54 times in English Wikipedia and cited 194 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #27759 in May 2012
  • Global: #12639 in November 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #59271 in October 2017
  • Global: #21170 in November 2017

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Simple past
26.6726
2Portuguese (pt)
Simple past
23.6485
3Arabic (ar)
ماضي بسيط
19.8795
4Persian (fa)
گذشته ساده
17.4622
5Spanish (es)
Pasado simple
16.6395
6Italian (it)
Past simple
12.6558
7Urdu (ur)
ماضی مطلق
12.0937
8German (de)
Simple Past
7.4264
9Turkish (tr)
Past simple
5.4036
10Russian (ru)
Past simple
4.5205
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Simple past" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Pasado simple
2 433 390
2English (en)
Simple past
1 517 225
3Italian (it)
Past simple
902 761
4German (de)
Simple Past
495 465
5Russian (ru)
Past simple
446 562
6Persian (fa)
گذشته ساده
251 236
7Turkish (tr)
Past simple
77 454
8Arabic (ar)
ماضي بسيط
48 387
9Portuguese (pt)
Simple past
16 099
10Urdu (ur)
ماضی مطلق
14 680
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Simple past" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Simple past
2 187
2Spanish (es)
Pasado simple
1 445
3Russian (ru)
Past simple
634
4Portuguese (pt)
Simple past
275
5German (de)
Simple Past
227
6Italian (it)
Past simple
185
7Turkish (tr)
Past simple
150
8Persian (fa)
گذشته ساده
105
9Arabic (ar)
ماضي بسيط
86
10Urdu (ur)
ماضی مطلق
75
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Simple past" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Simple Past
129
2English (en)
Simple past
108
3Italian (it)
Past simple
99
4Spanish (es)
Pasado simple
66
5Russian (ru)
Past simple
28
6Persian (fa)
گذشته ساده
17
7Arabic (ar)
ماضي بسيط
11
8Turkish (tr)
Past simple
10
9Portuguese (pt)
Simple past
7
10Urdu (ur)
ماضی مطلق
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Simple past" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
ماضي بسيط
0
2German (de)
Simple Past
0
3English (en)
Simple past
0
4Spanish (es)
Pasado simple
0
5Persian (fa)
گذشته ساده
0
6Italian (it)
Past simple
0
7Portuguese (pt)
Simple past
0
8Russian (ru)
Past simple
0
9Turkish (tr)
Past simple
0
10Urdu (ur)
ماضی مطلق
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Simple past" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Simple past
54
2Persian (fa)
گذشته ساده
37
3Turkish (tr)
Past simple
24
4German (de)
Simple Past
23
5Italian (it)
Past simple
17
6Russian (ru)
Past simple
15
7Portuguese (pt)
Simple past
11
8Spanish (es)
Pasado simple
8
9Urdu (ur)
ماضی مطلق
3
10Arabic (ar)
ماضي بسيط
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ماضي بسيط
deGerman
Simple Past
enEnglish
Simple past
esSpanish
Pasado simple
faPersian
گذشته ساده
itItalian
Past simple
ptPortuguese
Simple past
ruRussian
Past simple
trTurkish
Past simple
urUrdu
ماضی مطلق

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#59271
10.2017
Global:
#21170
11.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#27759
05.2012
Global:
#12639
11.2018

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Simple past from Wikipedia articles about Preterite, Simple present, Passé composé, Present perfect and Past tense. Whereas reading the article about Simple past people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Preterite, Past tense, Uses of English verb forms, Present perfect and English verb.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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