<tns>

<tns> (tense) indicates the grammatical tense associated with a given inflected form in a dictionary. 9.3.1 Information on Written and Spoken Forms
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Attributes att.lexicographic (@expand, @norm, @split, @value, @orig, @location, @mergedIn, @opt)
Used by
May contain
Declaration

<rng:element name="tns">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.lexicographic.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="macro.paraContent"/>
</rng:element>
element tns
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.lexicographic.attributes,
   macro.paraContent
}
Example
Taken from Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache. Veranstaltet und herausgegeben von Joachim Heinrich Campe. Vierter Theil. S - bis - T. (Braunschweig 1810. In der Schulbuchhandlung):

Treffen, v. unregelm. ... du triffst, ...

<entry>
 <form type="inflected">
  <gramGrp>
   <per value="2"/>
   <number value="singular"/>
   <tns value="present"/>
   <mood value="indicative"/>
  </gramGrp>
  <form type="personalpronoun">
   <orth>du</orth>
  </form>
  <form type="headword">
   <orth>
    <oVar>triffst</oVar>
   </orth>
  </form>
 </form>
</entry>
Note
This element is synonymous with <gram type="tense">.