User:Robbiemuffin/The tenses/The Absolute tenses
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the Past
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Any time, and all time, before now.
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the Present
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the Future
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Strictly after the current moment.
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NonPast
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NonFuture
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At or before now. The opposite of the future.
Note this is a fairly rare tense, linguists had hypothesized languages might have this tense but they had to actually discover examples. |
Not-Yet
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Still
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Indicates a situation held to be the case, at or immediately before the utterance.
Language with a Still (by inflection) Luganda |