时态 is the standard linguistic term for grammatical tense — overwhelmingly used when discussing English, French, etc. Mandarin itself doesn't have tenses; instead it uses 体 (tǐ, aspect) markers like 了, 着, 过.
memory
Literally "time-state" — 时 (time) + 态 (state/condition). A tense is the "state" of a verb with respect to time.
