Ariana (name) Ariana (name) Ariana is a feminine Persian name, popular in many languages. Arianna and Ariane are the two most common variations. The name "Ariana" has the several possible following origins. Ariana, the Latinized form of (Greek: ἡ 'Αρειανή/Arianē), was also a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of antiquity for an extensive territory in Central Asia, east of Persia and west of India, broadly covering modern Pakistan and Afghanistan. The name of Iran (Persia) originates from the Sanskrit word Aryānā (Ariana) meaning "The Land of the Aryans". The name "Arianna" is also the Latinized form of
Simple past on this, see English subjunctive. This is the only case in modern English where a distinction in form is made between the indicative and subjunctive moods in the past tense. Questions, other clauses requiring inversion, negations with "not", and emphatic forms of the simple past use the auxiliary "did". For details of this mechanism, see "do"-support. A full list of forms is given below, using the (regular) verb "help" as an example: The simple past is used for a single event (or sequence of such events) in the past, and also for past habitual action: It can also refer to