Tenses

Verb tenses There are 9 simple and 20 compound tenses in Turkish. 9 simple tenses are simple past (di'li geçmiş), inferential past (miş'li geçmiş), present continuous, simple present (aorist), future, wish, demand, necessitative ("must") and order.

For examples of languages with a greater variety of tenses, see the section on possible tenses, above.

Nancy L. Morse, Michael B. Maxwell, Cubeo Grammar, Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1999, p. 45. Tenses that refer specifically to "today" are called hodiernal tenses ; these can be either past or future.

Synthetic verbal conjugation is expressed in present, aorist and imperfect tenses while perfect, pluperfect, future and conditional tenses/moods are made by combining auxiliary verbs with participles or synthetic tense forms.

Tenses are generally separated into absolute (deictic) and relative tenses.

Tenses of the imperfective aspect The tenses of the imperfective aspect are present, imperfect, and future tense.

The old Germanic languages are famous for having only two tenses (present and past), with three PIE past-tense aspects (imperfect, aorist, and perfect/stative) merged into one and no new tenses (future, pluperfect, etc.) developing.

The participles are inflected by gender, number, and definiteness, and are coordinated with the subject when forming compound tenses (see tenses above).

There are four simple tenses (present, past, future, and conditional), three compound tenses (past, future, and conditional), and the passive voice.

These are divided into two tense systems: the present system, which is made up of the present, imperfect and future tenses, and the perfect system, which is made up of the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses.

In Chronosentia, time is conceptualized as a fluid, multi-dimensional entity, and the language has a wide array of tenses, aspects, and moods to express different aspects of temporality.

Oliver Fagalilo takes a labored breath and tenses his body before a sharp steel comb, dipped in ink, is driven into his skin.

Additional tenses, tense–aspect combinations, etc. can be provided by compound constructions containing auxiliary verbs.

All the other forms, tenses, and moods of haïr contain the same hiatus regardless of register.

A person with receptive aphasia speaks with normal prosody and intonation but uses random words, invents words, leaves out key words, substitutes words or verb tenses, pronouns, or prepositions, and utters sentences that do not make sense.

Aramaic also has two proper tenses : the perfect and the imperfect.

Aspect by language Germanic languages English The English tense–aspect system has two morphologically distinct tenses, present and past.

At one time, Hungarian used six verb tenses ; today, only two are commonly used (present and past; future is formed with an auxiliary verb and is usually not counted as a separate tense).

Auxiliary verbs are combined with past participles of main verbs to produce compound tenses, including the compound past ( passé composé ).

Both forms are used with the verbal noun (equivalent to the English present participle ) to create compound tenses.