"Tense" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 紧张 | jǐn zhāng | nervous / keyed up / intense / tense / strained / in short supply / scarce / CL:陣|阵[zhen4] |   |
| 紧绷 | jǐn bēng | to stretch taut / (of muscles etc) taut / strained / tense | |
| 吃紧 | chī jǐn | in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important | |
| 时态 | shí tài | (verb) tense | |
| 紧 |  jǐn | tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money / to tighten | |
| 时式 | shí shì | fashionable style / (linguistics) tense | |
| 曾经 | céng jīng | once / already / former / previously / ever / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | |
| 过去时 | guò qù shí | past tense (grammar) | |
| 过去式 | guò qu shì | past tense | |
| 曾 | céng | once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | |
| 缓 | huǎn | slow / unhurried / sluggish / gradual / not tense / relaxed / to postpone / to defer / to stall / to stave off / to revive / to recuperate | |
| 脸红筋暴 | liǎn hóng jīn bào | red and tense with anger (idiom) | |
| 脸红筋涨 | liǎn hóng jīn zhǎng | red and tense with anger (idiom) | |
| 投了票 | tóu le piào | past tense of to vote | |
| 任凭风浪起，稳坐钓鱼台 | rèn píng fēng làng qǐ , wěn zuò diào yú tái | lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation | |
| 完成时 | wán chéng shí | perfect tense (grammar) | |
| 未来式 | wèi lái shì | future tense | |
| 火药味甚浓 | huǒ yào wèi shèn nóng | strong smell of gunpowder / fig. tense situation / standoff | |
| 现在式 | xiàn zài shì | present tense | |
| 稳坐钓鱼台 | wěn zuò diào yú tái | lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation | |
| 紧张状态 | jǐn zhāng zhuàng tài | tense situation / standoff | |
| 风声紧 | fēng shēng jǐn | (fig.) the situation is tense | |
| 闹僵 | nào jiāng | (of a relationship or situation) to become strained and tense | |
