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Tense–aspect–mood
Kamis, 2026-03-12 19:35:55

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated TAM in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as TMA) is an important group of grammatical categories...

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Grammatical tense
Senin, 2026-05-11 14:04:35

languages may be described in terms of a combined tense–aspect–mood (TAM) system. The English noun tense comes from Old French tens "time" (spelled temps...

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Grammatical mood
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:11:34

other modern Indo-European languages. (See tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative...

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Grammatical aspect
Kamis, 2026-05-14 14:35:36

of aspect is often conflated with the marking of tense and mood (see tense–aspect–mood). Aspectual distinctions may be restricted to certain tenses: in...

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Singlish
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:44:30

linguistic communities of the Old and the New World: Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789401208345. ISBN 978-94-012-0834-5...

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Verb
Selasa, 2026-05-12 10:20:36

many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number...

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French verbs
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 20:13:55

grammatical tense and person/number. There are eight simple tense–aspect–mood forms, categorized into the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, with...

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Coptic language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:20:01

of the tense/aspect/mood categories is shown in the following table: An unusual feature of Coptic is the extensive use of a set of "second tenses", which...

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Bislama
Senin, 2026-01-26 21:06:17

trink 'drink'; save 'know'; se 'say'. Verbs do not conjugate. The tense, aspect and mood of a sentence are indicated with markers such as stap, bin and bae...

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Chuj language
Kamis, 2026-03-12 23:17:51

Tiʼ Chuj, ALMG, 2007, p.34 Robertson, John S. (1992). A history of tense/aspect/mood/voice in the Mayan verbal complex. Austin, Texas: University of Texas...

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Spanish verbs
Kamis, 2026-02-12 11:34:15

distinct complete forms (tenses), i.e. sets of forms for each combination of tense, mood and aspect, plus one incomplete tense (the imperative), as well...

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Neo-Mandaic
Kamis, 2026-05-14 01:35:44

which serves only to indicate verbal inflections such as person, tense, mood, and aspect; the meaning of these compounds is primarily derived from the non-verbal...

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Maasai language
Kamis, 2026-05-07 04:30:40

done by a female). Present tense in Maasai includes habitual actions, such as "I wake up" or "I cook breakfast". Past tense refers only to a past action...

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Modality (semantics)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 21:41:17

to mark modality, with a particular focus on its interaction with tense–aspect–mood marking. Theoretical linguists have sought to analyze both the propositional...

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Louisiana Creole
Selasa, 2026-05-19 20:09:08

creole languages, Louisiana Creole features preverbal markers of tense, aspect and mood as listed in the table below. The vocabulary of Louisiana Creole...

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Enga language
Selasa, 2026-03-24 18:52:19

expresses the inflectional categories of the noun such as tense, aspect, person, number, gender or mood. The suffixes can be broken down into two main groups:...

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Uses of English verb forms
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:55:35

was going and would have gone They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice, in various configurations. For details...

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English verbs
Senin, 2026-01-19 03:27:35

language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with...

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List of glossing abbreviations
Senin, 2026-01-19 14:56:50

'person–number–gender element' and tam 'tense–aspect–mood element' (also ng number–gender, pn person–number, ta tense–aspect, tame tense–aspect–mood–evidential) etc. These...

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Nominal TAM
Minggu, 2022-07-03 22:45:05

Nominal TAM is the indication of tense–aspect–mood by inflecting a noun, rather than a verb. In clausal nominal TAM, the noun indicates TAM information...

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Classical Nahuatl grammar
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:19:35

cannot inflect for tense-aspect-mood like verbs do, the copula cah 'to be' is required for nominal predication outside of the present tense, in which case...

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Derung language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 17:58:52

an elaborate set of markers that normally follow a verb that mark tense–aspect–mood distinctions, as well as evidentiality and mirativity. Derung has...

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Present tense
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:13:56

analysed as the present tense in contemporary Shanghainese, where 哉 has undergone lenition to 了. Grammatical aspect Tense–aspect–mood Tense confusion Comrie...

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Eyak language
Kamis, 2026-03-26 11:00:23

in position 5. Tense/aspect/mood B1: GA, ø ~ A, : ~ A Subject: xw (1 sg.), ø ~ y(i) (2 sg.), lAX (2 pl.), ø (all else) Tense/aspect/mood B2: sA ~ s (perfective)...

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Cook Islands Māori
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 00:01:23

commencement of an action or state. Often translatable as the English future tense or "going to" construction Ka imene a Mere ākonei ite pō : Mary is going...

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Shetland dialect
Rabu, 2026-06-03 18:26:31

concatenative grammatical markers, such as the genitive marker or a few tense/aspect markers. The language, like all Germanic languages, has both strong and...

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Khortha language
Selasa, 2026-04-07 12:30:08

cry-PST-1 ham/hamin kãdʌ-l-i I/We cry-PST-1 'I/We cried.' Restricted in past tense constructions, the ergative agent is marked by =ẽ, which is homophonous...

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Continuous and progressive aspects
Selasa, 2026-03-17 10:33:30

present tense; some as a progressive tense; and some as both a continuous (nonhabitual imperfective) and a progressive (continuous non-stative) aspect. The...

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Gnomic aspect
Selasa, 2025-12-16 07:15:00

neutral, generic, or universal aspect, mood, or tense, is a grammatical feature (which may refer to aspect, mood, or tense) that expresses general truths...

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Grammatical conjugation
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:20:49

for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity...

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Tense
Jumat, 2022-09-02 07:19:08

chronology Tense–aspect–mood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense") Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels Tense (album)...

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Grammatical category
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 07:24:10

analysis. For example, the meanings associated with the categories of tense, aspect and mood are often bound up in verb conjugation patterns that do not have...

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Hawaiian grammar
Rabu, 2026-03-25 16:05:25

four-hundreds') Verbs can be analytically marked with particles to indicate tense, aspect and mood. Separate verb markers are used in relative clauses, after the negation...

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Subjunctive mood
Kamis, 2026-04-30 23:55:28

"you". Habitual aspect in Hindi-Urdu requires the copula rêhnā (to stay) to form future tense forms, progressive and perfective mood can use rêhnā (to...

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Evidentiality
Selasa, 2025-12-16 10:11:30

with grammatical evidentiality mark evidentiality independently from tense-aspect or epistemic modality, which is the speaker's evaluation of the information...

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Auxiliary verb
Kamis, 2026-06-04 15:29:23

of the clause. Auxiliary verbs typically help express grammatical tense, aspect, mood, and voice. They generally appear together with an infinitive. The...

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Tsez language
Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:19:13

-čʼV with V being a vowel that can be different, depending on the tense/aspect/mood of the verb; it is inserted after the verb stem. With the example...

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Affirmation and negation
Senin, 2026-03-16 20:31:13

combine with different aspects of the verb. These pre-verb negatory particles can also be used to convey tense, mood, aspect, and polarity (negation)...

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Screeve
Kamis, 2026-05-14 00:15:39

description in traditional Georgian grammar that roughly corresponds to tense–aspect–mood marking in the Western grammatical tradition. Formally, it refers...

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Máku language of Auari
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:03:00

inflect for number and case via suffixes. Verbs also inflect for tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and negation via suffixes. Noun phrases exhibit the...

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Perfective aspect
Kamis, 2026-03-05 04:06:38

JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS. 17, 147-184. VAN OLPHEN, HERMAN (1975). "Aspect, Tense, and Mood in the Hindi Verb". Indo-Iranian Journal. 16 (4): 284–301. doi:10...

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French language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 22:15:07

other pronouns, for person, number, gender, and case; and verbs, for tense, aspect, mood, and the person and number of their subjects. Case is primarily marked...

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African-American Vernacular English
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:33:37

least four aspects of the past tense and two aspects of the future tense. The dialect uses several tense–aspect–mood markers integrated into the predicate...

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Central Atlas Tamazight
Minggu, 2026-05-17 03:13:30

suffixes and circumfixes. verbs are heavily inflected, being marked for tense, aspect, mood, voice, person of the subject, and polarity, sometimes undergoing...

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Arabic verbs
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:11:51

person, gender, number, tense, mood, and voice. Various categories are marked on verbs: Three tenses (present, past; future tense is indicated by the prefix...

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Lexical aspect
Minggu, 2026-03-22 02:35:45

In linguistics, the lexical aspect, situation type or Aktionsart (German pronunciation: [ʔakˈtsi̯oːnsˌʔaːɐ̯t], plural Aktionsarten German pronunciation:...

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Jeju language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 08:37:27

by particles that may function as case markers. Verbs inflect for tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, relative social status, formality, and other grammatical...

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Inflection
Rabu, 2026-05-20 16:54:58

express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs...

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Counterfactual conditional
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:04:57

tied to the grammatical marking of tense, aspect, and mood. Many languages use so-called fake tense and fake aspect to signal a counterfactual interpretation...

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Future tense
Kamis, 2026-04-16 12:02:53

shall as well as the futurate present tense. Tenseless languages use context, lexical items, aspect and/or mood to indicate time. The nature of the future...

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Hinuq language
Rabu, 2026-02-11 22:42:33

combined with prefixes and suffixes. Verbs can be inflected for tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, polarity, illocutionary force, gender, and number...

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Lithuanian grammar
Minggu, 2026-05-10 07:29:04

inflected for numbers and cases. Its verbs are inflected for person, tense-aspect-mood, and voice. In additional, both its nouns and verbs have multiple...

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Telicity
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:58:00

Utrecht University, 2002. Lindstedt, Jouko (1985). On the Semantics of Tense and Aspect in Bulgarian. Slavica Helsingiensia, ISSN 0780-3281. Vol. 4. University...

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Danish language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 19:58:50

present tense takes the suffix -r, except for a few strong verbs that have irregular non-past forms. The past form does not necessarily mark past tense, but...

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Vaeakau-Taumako language
Jumat, 2026-04-24 20:54:11

also features bound subject pronouns which act as clitics to the tense-aspect-mood marker of the verb of the constituent. They are not obligatory to...

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East Cushitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 04:04:19

majority of East Cushitic verbs mark their subject agreement and tense–aspect–mood information with suffixes. A typically East Cushitic feature is the...

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Tam
Kamis, 2026-04-30 20:26:20

Management, programme that Albert S. Humphrey was involved with Tense–aspect–mood (or Tense–aspect–mood–evidentiality, abbreviated as tame), refers to a group...

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Chinantecan languages
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:41:09

express categories such as tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, movement, and posture; and select for only certain tense-aspect forms of the stem; an obligatory...

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Munda languages
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:10:07

past tense negation is marked by the suffix -ᶑùn. Many Korku auxiliary verbs are borrowed from Indo-Aryan. The auxiliary verb takes tense–aspect–mood, voice...

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Mayan languages
Minggu, 2026-05-31 01:07:17

patient), the Mayan verb has affixes signalling aspect, tense, and mood as in the following example: Tense systems in Mayan languages are generally simple...

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French grammar
Senin, 2026-03-02 22:17:20

other pronouns, for person, number, gender, and case; and verbs, for tense, aspect, mood, and the person and number of their subjects. Case is primarily marked...

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Morpheme
Minggu, 2026-05-31 22:29:38

morpheme (word) are bound morphemes. Inflectional morphemes modify the tense, aspect, mood, person, or number of a verb or the number, grammatical gender, or...

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Mirativity
Kamis, 2026-01-15 15:48:53

Aksu, Ayhan A. (1982). "Tense, aspect and modality in the use of the Turkish evidential". In Hopper, Paul J. (ed.). Tense-aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics...

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Swahili grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-21 21:32:47

object), tense, aspect and mood, and generally a subject–verb–object (SVO) word order. Swahili may be described in several ways depending on the aspect being...

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Spanish grammar
Rabu, 2026-05-20 02:35:31

end, according to their changing functions. Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number (resulting in up to fifty conjugated forms per...

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Imperative mood
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:10:02

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed...

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Cupeño language
Minggu, 2026-05-10 20:02:03

nominal constructions. Cupeño inflects its verbs for transitivity, tense, aspect, mood, person, number, and evidentiality. Evidentiality in Cupeño is expressed...

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TMA
Jumat, 2026-04-24 17:40:37

Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who)", a 2015 TV episode Tense–Modality–Aspect or tense–aspect–mood, grammatical system Tetramethylammonium ion or its salts...

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Sanskrit verbs
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:45:36

verbs thus have an inflection system for different combinations of tense, aspect, mood, voice, number, and person. Non-finite forms such as participles...

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Crimean Tatar language
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:31:11

Tatar verbal morphology is fairly complex, inflecting for tense, number, person, aspect, mood and voice. Verbs are conjugated according to the following...

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Naʼvi language
Jumat, 2026-04-03 18:21:58

co-occur with a tense/aspect/mood infix by preceding it. Tenses are past, recent past, present (unmarked), future, and immediate future; aspects are perfective...

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Tigrinya grammar
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:07:37

that signal subject agreement vary greatly with the particular verb tense/aspect/mood, they are normally not considered to be pronouns and are discussed...

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Predicate (grammar)
Jumat, 2025-12-26 16:30:14

stage-level predicate. When an individual-level predicate occurs in past tense, it gives rise to what is called a lifetime effect: The subject must be...

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Haida language
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 16:13:28

away from the beach, towards the woods'. Haida verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality, and person is marked by pronouns that are cliticized...

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Czech language
Senin, 2026-05-11 16:48:33

limited. Czech inflects for case, gender and number in nouns and tense, aspect, mood, person and subject number and gender in verbs. Parts of speech include...

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Yelena Paducheva
Selasa, 2025-09-09 19:42:59

2019) was a Russian linguist specializing in semantics, pragmatics, tense–aspect–mood and evidentiality. She spent her career as a researcher at the Russian...

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Aorist
Selasa, 2026-04-14 12:32:42

basically a past tense and can be combined with both perfective and imperfective aspects as well as the imperative and the subjunctive moods. In Khinalug...

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Amharic
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:49:48

that signal subject agreement vary greatly with the particular verb tense/aspect/mood, they are normally not considered to be pronouns and are discussed...

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Victoria Escandell-Vidal
Senin, 2024-11-18 00:12:34

interfaces. She has investigated topics in information structure, verbal tense–aspect–mood, evidentiality, politeness theory, language processing, and second-language...

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Maningrida languages
Kamis, 2026-01-01 19:20:28

Ndjébbana Na'kara Green established the family by reconstructing the tense–aspect–mood inflections of Proto-Maningrida, and demonstrated common developments...

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Habitual aspect
Selasa, 2025-12-16 04:57:16

consist of two elements. The first element is the aspect marker. The second element is the tense-mood marker. There are four different copulas with which...

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Morphological leveling
Jumat, 2026-05-22 04:06:33

expressing a different tense, aspect, mood, voice, person, and number. For instance, English sing has only two forms in the present tense (I/you/we/they sing...

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Tigrinya language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:41:24

me', ኣይዓብይን ʼayʽabǝy-ǝn 'not big' Tigrinya has an unusually complex tense–aspect–mood system, with many nuances achieved using combinations of the three...

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Proto-Indo-European verbs
Minggu, 2026-05-03 03:10:44

according to their aspect, using multiple grammatical moods and voices, and being conjugated according to person, number and tense. In addition to finite...

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Plural
Rabu, 2025-12-10 13:14:31

as well as marking of categories belonging to the word itself (such as tense of verbs, degree of comparison of adjectives, etc.) Verbs often agree with...

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Nicolas Tournadre
Kamis, 2025-12-11 02:20:16

mainly deals with ergative morphosyntax and grammatical semantics of tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality. Tournadre specializes in Tibetic languages. Since...

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Egyptian language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:15:30

verbs have finite and non-finite forms. Finite verbs convey person, tense/aspect, mood and voice. Each is indicated by a set of affixal morphemes attached...

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Perfect (grammar)
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:45:22

The perfect tense or aspect (abbreviated perf or prf) is a verb form that indicates that an action or circumstance occurred earlier than the time under...

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Manga Kanuri
Rabu, 2026-01-07 10:23:24

complex, incorporating intricate verbal inflections that convey tense, aspect, mood, and subject concord. The language employs postpositions to indicate...

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Mekeo language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 12:08:52

verb word. Within the verb word, the negator prefix is found between tense-aspect-mood prefixes and the subject marker, with an intrusive consonant before...

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Grammatical aspect in the Slavic languages
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 17:33:41

which aspect overtook grammatical tense's importance in verbal constructions. Although the ancestral Proto-Indo-European language also marked for aspect, it...

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Quotation
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:06:47

to complementizer in many African and Asian languages and verb to tense-aspect-mood markers primarily in African languages, but also in Australian languages...

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Grammatical person
Minggu, 2026-05-24 04:16:07

mark the present tense third person singular, excluding singular 'they'. In many languages, such as French, the verb in any given tense takes a different...

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Pluperfect
Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:09:58

traditionally described as a tense; in modern linguistic terminology it may be said to combine tense with grammatical aspect; namely past tense (reference to past...

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Kharia language
Kamis, 2026-05-07 13:27:22

The Kharia language (Kharia pronunciation: [kʰaɽija] or [kʰeɽija]) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family, that is primarily spoken by...

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Korean grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-07 14:04:14

rich class of morphemes, indicating such things in a sentence as tense, mood, aspect, speech level (of which there are 7 in Korean), and honorifics. Prefixes...

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Tigrinya verbs
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:05:17

first root consonant). Without ’a- its realization depends on the tense/aspect/mood of the verb. Internal changes are of two types. One is a form of reduplication...

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Polypersonal agreement
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:42:53

prefixes, according to the verb class, the person and number, the tense and aspect of the verb, etc.; they also interact with each other phonologically...

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Luganda
Senin, 2026-05-11 20:39:18

'to pass' -yise Tense–aspect–mood in Luganda is explicitly marked on the verb, as it is in most other Bantu languages. The present tense is formed by simply...

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Hindustani verbs
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 15:18:21

(through Prakrit). Aspect-marking participles in Hindustani mark the aspect. Gender is not distinct in the present tense of the indicative mood, but all the...

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Koda language
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:24:02

villages include Babudaing village. Koda verbs are inflected for tense-aspect-mood and person, number, finite/infinite, subject/object, possessor, animacy...

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Zok language
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:07:11

and syntactic innovations, particularly in the organization of its tense-aspect-mood system, which is unparalleled in other Armenian dialects.[citation...

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Latin tenses
Jumat, 2026-05-01 00:02:25

tenses. In addition to the six main tenses of the indicative mood, there are four main tenses in the subjunctive mood and two in the imperative mood....

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Declension
Jumat, 2026-02-20 21:37:19

called conjugation. Declension occurs in many languages. It is an important aspect of language families like Quechuan (i.e., languages native to the Andes)...

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Feature (linguistics)
Rabu, 2025-10-22 05:49:10

grammatical features: for example, verbs in English are specified for tense, aspect and mood features, as well as person and number. The features that a category...

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Hadza language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:00:28

stop), and so an actual habitual takes a second -he. Various compound tense-aspect-moods occur by doubling up the inflectional endings. There are several additional...

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Iterative aspect
Selasa, 2025-12-16 05:48:21

prominence of tense, aspect and mood. Benjamins. pp53ff p160 in Bybee, J., R. Perkins, & W. Pagliuca, The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality...

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Irrealis mood
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:38:47

"Paul eats an apple", where the verb "to eat" is in the present tense, indicative mood. Another way, especially in British English, of expressing this...

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Imperfective aspect
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 18:43:46

elements is the aspect marker and the second element (the copula) is the common tense-mood marker. There are two independent imperfective aspects in Hindi-Urdu:...

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Kartvelian languages
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:34:45

verbs are divided between class 2 and 3); the series to which the tense/aspect/mood form (traditionally known as screeve) belongs. Georgian and Svan have...

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Mingrelian grammar
Selasa, 2025-09-16 08:01:42

from the Nakh-Dagestanian family. Mingrelian verbs index numerous tense-aspect-moods, with traces of evidentiality indexation. Mingrelian has two dialects:...

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Conditional mood
Selasa, 2026-02-17 06:31:52

counterfactual type that causes the conditional mood to be used. Conditionality may be expressed in several tense–aspect forms. These are the conditional simple...

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Chechen language
Selasa, 2026-05-05 04:37:48

prefix for the 1st and 2nd persons plural), only for number and tense, aspect, mood. A minority of verbs exhibit agreement prefixes, and these agree...

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Present continuous
Kamis, 2026-05-07 00:12:06

employed in both the indicative and subjunctive moods. According to an analysis of verb usage by tense and aspect, the present continuous accounts for around...

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Sasak people
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 07:54:22

Austin, Peter K. (2012). McGill, Stuart; Austin, Peter K. (eds.). Tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality in Sasak, eastern Indonesia. Vol. 11. pp. 231-251...

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Markedness
Selasa, 2026-02-10 08:52:11

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Collective noun
Rabu, 2026-05-13 13:56:00

game company headquartered in Japan". This does not, however, affect the tense later in the sentence: "Cream is a psychedelic rock band who were primarily...

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Nominative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:21:47

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Finiteness
Kamis, 2026-03-12 00:11:59

inflect for grammatical categories such as gender, person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and voice. The first three categories represent agreement information...

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Hixkaryana language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:37:07

number is indexed on the verb by portmanteau suffixes that combine tense, aspect, mood, and number. Hixkaryana has an object–verb–subject word order. In...

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Yahgan language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:27:58

principle is in the language, and how intricately it interacts with Tense-Aspect-Mood and Polarity marking, topicalization, focus, etc. The adverb kaia...

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Object (grammar)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 15:05:03

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Fusional language
Kamis, 2026-03-12 23:23:10

singular number, the indicative mood, and preterite (which is the combination of the past tense and perfective aspect), instead of having a separate affix...

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Egophoricity
Rabu, 2026-03-11 18:44:59

a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the capital of Nepal, has two past tense makers for verbs: the egophoric -ā and the non-egophoric -a. The former...

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Allocutive agreement
Selasa, 2025-12-16 05:50:49

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Tagmeme
Senin, 2025-07-21 12:11:15

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Oromo language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 19:13:35

verb. Because these suffixes vary greatly with the particular verb tense/aspect/mood, they are normally not considered to be pronouns and are discussed...

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Definiteness
Senin, 2025-07-28 22:33:25

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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English modal auxiliary verbs
Jumat, 2026-05-01 14:32:54

dansen. Danish: Jeg vil kunne danse. Swedish: Jag vill kunna dansa. Tense–aspect–mood § Invariant auxiliaries Although there are non-auxiliary modal verbs...

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Present perfect
Rabu, 2026-02-11 04:57:11

The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences...

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Bhojpuri language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:45:34

inflected for case, number, and gender, while verbs are inflected for tense, aspect, mood, and person-number-gender agreement. A notable feature is its system...

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Hausa language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 14:16:55

grades: Unlike most languages, Hausa verbs are not conjugated for tense-aspect-mood, but rather for the type of object that follows them. Also note that...

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Gnomic
Kamis, 2024-02-22 06:39:51

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gnomic may refer to: Gnomic aspect, a grammatical aspect, mood, or tense expressing a general truth or aphorism Gnomic poetry...

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Ancient Greek verbs
Senin, 2026-03-16 16:26:23

three voices. The distinction of the "tenses" in moods other than the indicative is predominantly one of aspect rather than time. The different persons...

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Hmong language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:00:00

are monosyllables. As a result, verbs are not overtly inflected. Tense, aspect, mood, person, number, gender, and case are indicated lexically. Hmong...

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Aorist (Ancient Greek)
Selasa, 2026-01-13 15:47:43

aorist is a tense, one of the seven divisions of the conjugation of a verb, found in all moods and voices. It has a consistent stem across all moods. By contrast...

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Finite verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 04:50:04

denote grammatical characteristics such as gender, person, number, tense, aspect, mood, modality, and voice. In the second of those constructions, a modal...

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Morphology (linguistics)
Kamis, 2026-05-07 04:37:47

classifying them according to shared inflectional categories such as tense, aspect, mood, number, gender or case. For example, the personal pronouns in English...

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Argument (linguistics)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 08:55:32

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Traditional grammar
Jumat, 2025-12-12 15:32:52

also be inflected for tense, aspect, mood, and voice. Verb tense indicates the time that the sentence describes. A verb also has mood, indicating whether...

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Frequentative
Rabu, 2024-12-25 04:21:14

adjectives. Continuous and progressive aspects Inchoative verb Bhat, D.N.S. (1999). The prominence of tense, aspect and mood. John Benjamins. pp. 53–56. ISBN 9781556199356...

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Index of linguistics articles
Senin, 2026-02-02 21:26:23

categories - Syntax - Synthetic language Tagmemics - Telicity - Tense - Tense–aspect–mood - Terminology - Text linguistics - Text types - Thematic role...

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Ergative–absolutive alignment
Rabu, 2026-05-27 10:06:46

verbs more likely to be marked ergative The grammatical structure or [tense-aspect-mood] Languages from Australia, New Guinea and Tibet have been shown to...

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Optative mood
Senin, 2026-02-09 18:43:47

(new) optative past tense as an irrealis mood started apparently after the Proto-Germanic past tense that had been once the perfect tense supplanted the Indo-German...

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Hawaiian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:27:42

particles (short words) and by their relative positions, that indicate tense–aspect–mood. Some examples of verb phrase patterns: ua verb – perfective e verb...

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Mass noun
Senin, 2026-05-25 15:44:48

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Chimariko language
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:23:50

Person Root Negative kuna Directional Tense/Aspect Mood...

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Nahuatl
Jumat, 2026-05-01 19:16:55

indicate tense, aspect, mood and subject number. Most Nahuatl dialects distinguish three tenses: present, past, and future, and two aspects: perfective...

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Isthmus Zapotec
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 20:25:02

Zapotec is as follows: ASPECT (THEME) (CAUSATIVE) ROOT VOWEL. The verbs of Isthmus Zapotec usually contain around seven aspects. Research conducted by...

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Outline of linguistics
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 00:06:16

allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone Grammar category, tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case Syntax...

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Insular Celtic languages
Rabu, 2026-06-03 23:57:39

particular persons chosen in the example. Also, the combination of tense–aspect–mood properties inherent in these verb forms is non-past but otherwise...

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Agent (grammar)
Rabu, 2025-01-08 09:10:43

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Mixed language
Jumat, 2026-02-13 02:05:01

structure including case-marking, and the verb structure including TAM (tense-aspect-mood) auxiliaries coming from Kriol. In this respect, Gurindji Kriol is...

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Complement (linguistics)
Rabu, 2023-12-20 03:29:35

of the term is the one that currently dominates in linguistics. A main aspect of this understanding of complements is that the subject is usually not...

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Catalan language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 22:32:11

split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending...

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Khorasani Turkic
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:56:07

different case endings from regular nouns. Verbs are declined for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. The infinitive form of the verb ends in -max...

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Serial verb construction
Rabu, 2026-01-21 07:18:06

serial verbs cannot be marked independently for categories such as tense, aspect and mood. Either all of the verbs are marked for the same features, or a...

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Dative construction
Senin, 2025-05-05 03:17:22

verb that can be used with it. Hence any verb in any grammatical aspect, mood, or tense of Hindi can be used in the dative construction. The following are...

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Topic and comment
Selasa, 2026-03-03 18:39:15

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Old Irish
Kamis, 2026-05-28 15:40:48

and dependent forms; and simple, and complex forms. Verbs display tense, aspect, mood, voice, and sometimes portmanteau forms through suffixes, or stem...

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Count noun
Senin, 2025-12-01 05:33:53

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Thematic relation
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:46:14

some early work on it in 1972. The focus of these studies on semantic aspects and how they affect syntax was part of a shift away from Chomsky's syntactic-centered...

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Measure word
Senin, 2025-12-15 03:56:01

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Qʼanjobʼal language
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:55:38

University of Kansas. Robertson, John S. (1992). The History of Tense/Aspect/Mood/Voice in the Mayan Verbal Complex. Austin: University of Texas Press...

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Apma language
Kamis, 2026-04-02 09:09:26

marker indicating the tense, aspect and mood of the action. The subject pronouns are as follows: Apma has the following tense/aspect/mood markers: The full...

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Affect (linguistics)
Senin, 2025-02-17 14:47:15

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Marra language
Rabu, 2025-09-10 07:54:31

pronominal prefix, an inflectable verb-stem, and suffixes marking tense, aspect, and mood. Often, however, there is an uninflectable "main verb" that specifies...

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English auxiliary verbs
Jumat, 2025-11-21 07:08:05

closed class of verbs that are characteristically used as markers of tense, aspect, mood, and voice." It too adds a list of criteria. The list of auxiliary...

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Kristang language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 09:11:42

FUT buy car 'If I have/had the money I will/would buy a car.' The Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) markers do not normally co-occur. Combinations of markers are...

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Early Middle Japanese
Kamis, 2026-04-16 08:42:27

interrogative mood. Auxiliary verb (助(じょ)動(どう) 詞(し)): With inflection. Describes additional information of Yougen like tense, aspect, mood, voice, and polarity...

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Realis mood
Minggu, 2026-03-22 04:09:20

mood", for making general statements about a particular class of things; this may be considered to be an aspect rather than a mood. See gnomic aspect...

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Linguistic areas of the Americas
Minggu, 2026-03-01 23:27:00

classification systems evidentiality serial verb constructions shared tense-aspect-mood values lexical calquing The Caquetá–Putumayo linguistic area includes:...

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Noun class
Jumat, 2026-02-13 11:02:47

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Laz language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 00:55:04

suffixes according to person and number, and also for grammatical tense, aspect, mood, and (in some dialects) evidentiality. Up to 50 verbal prefixes are...

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Mekong–Mamberamo linguistic area
Selasa, 2024-01-30 22:19:31

grammatical-morpheme density optional thematic-role flagging optional tense–aspect–mood marking Gil, David. 2015. ‘The Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area?’...

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Clusivity
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:19:52

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Ossetian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 05:56:27

imperative), and belong to one of two grammatical aspects (perfective and imperfective). The person, tense and mood morphemes are mostly fused. The following...

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Marker (linguistics)
Kamis, 2026-04-30 20:39:17

love") is marked by suffix -ō for indicative mood, active voice, first person, singular, present tense. Analytic languages tend to have a relatively...

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Atlantean language
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:16:05

are inflected with two suffixes, one for tense/aspect and the next for person/number. OBLG:obligatory mood POSB:possible Apart from its use in the Atlantis...

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Instrumental case
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 09:34:56

("Mark Twain") in the instrumental case. a predicate with infinitive, future tense, imperative, conditional and gerund of the verbs "быть" and "являться" (both...

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Possession (linguistics)
Kamis, 2025-09-25 17:15:27

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Simple present
Rabu, 2026-02-04 06:02:39

with the present tense in modern English. It is commonly referred to as a tense, although it also encodes certain information about aspect in addition to...

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Construct state
Senin, 2026-03-09 09:11:14

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Contrast (linguistics)
Selasa, 2025-12-02 00:36:49

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Subject (grammar)
Selasa, 2026-03-03 18:42:33

following sentence, the word 'chaidh' ("went") is an auxiliary carrying tense and is used in an impersonal or passive constructions. The word 'falbh'...

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Associated motion
Rabu, 2025-05-28 22:07:32

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Past tense
Senin, 2026-02-16 16:51:34

grammatical expression of past tense is combined with the expression of other categories such as grammatical aspect (see tense–aspect). Thus a language may have...

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Dameli language
Senin, 2025-05-19 10:58:08

causative', becoming ditransitive. Verbs are inflected for six finite tense-aspect-mood categories: perfective, imperfective, indirect past, potential past...

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Animacy
Senin, 2026-04-13 09:40:53

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Grammatical gender
Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:34:34

g. -i rather than -y). Such endings also appear on adjectives and past tense verbs. The two features are analogous to features of Russian and Czech respectively...

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Pluractionality
Rabu, 2024-04-17 14:49:22

grammatical aspect that indicates that the action or participants of a verb is, or are, plural. This differs from frequentative or iterative aspects in that...

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Adjunct (grammar)
Minggu, 2025-12-21 14:35:19

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Tangale language
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:58:38

with only one consonant. Verbs stems are marked with one of nine tense-aspect-mood (TAM) suffixes: Imperative-Subjunctive Aorist-Intentional Aorist-Subjunctive...

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Subjunctive mood in Spanish
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:10:52

first-person plural, present indicative form. Verbs inflect for tense, number, person, mood, aspect, voice, and gender. Spanish also features the T–V distinction...

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Imperfect
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:43:11

(abbreviated imperf) is a verb form that combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or repeated event or...

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Volition (linguistics)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 07:38:21

Lotte, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov. Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality. Linguistics Today. 148 (2009). Print. Smouse, Mantoa Rose...

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English markers of habitual aspect
Minggu, 2026-01-04 08:19:42

infinitive] expresses the lexical verb’s habitual aspect in the past tense, and is in the indicative mood and active voice. In informal spoken English questions...

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Plains Apache language
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:22:15

paradigmatic prefixes (which inflect the verb for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and voice). The following verb template table is reproduced from...

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Kiwai language
Rabu, 2026-04-01 21:46:31

"verbal word-base" and various prefixes and suffixes, marking for tense, aspect, mood and cross-marking for subject and object. Verbal Word-Bases always...

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Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:12:23

Gaelic: When comparing one entity to another in the present or the future tense, the adjective is changed by adding an e to the end and i before the final...

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Torres Strait Creole
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:46:36

in all local languages (this is in common with virtually all verb tense/aspect/mood markers in the language). Verb clause strings are normal in the language:...

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Nuristani Kalasha language
Kamis, 2026-02-12 23:32:26

basic stems for verbs from which are built a number of conjugated tense/aspect/moods - the present stem is used to make not only presents but futures,...

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Grammatical case
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:05:21

adverb (e.g.   δικαίως   was a   πτῶσις   of   δίκαιος ), the other tenses and moods of the verb, including its interrogative form. The grammarians, following...

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Branching (linguistics)
Minggu, 2026-02-22 19:26:52

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Georgian grammar
Selasa, 2026-02-03 09:32:16

terms "tense", "aspect", "mood", etc. separately, linguists prefer to use the term "screeve" to distinguish between different time frames and moods of the...

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Suffixaufnahme
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:57:56

(GEN) as well. In addition, Kayardild also has a system of modal (i.e., aspect-mood) cases, which involves the use of the same case suffixes found in the...

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Samoan language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:34:58

later in this entry. Lē (meaning 'not') can be combined with all tense-aspect-mood particles (or 'TAM' particles), except those that are optative and...

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Hehe language
Selasa, 2026-01-20 07:46:39

Hehe has 15 noun classes, marked with prefixes. Hehe has a complex tense-aspect-mood system. In the "stop/affricate" group, /t͡ʃ/ and /ⁿdʑ/ are described...

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Boundedness (linguistics)
Sabtu, 2024-08-31 18:02:10

a stative ("I knew"). The perfective aspect often includes a contextual variation similar to an inchoative aspect or verb, and expresses the beginning...

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Ebrié language
Selasa, 2025-03-04 04:18:57

mmanhɔn [m̀mã̀hɔ̀̃] 'mothers' nmyahɔn [ǹmjã̂hɔ̃̀] 'spouses' In Ebrié, tense/aspect/mood markers are found on the verb or as separate morphemes if the subject...

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Georgian conjugation
Minggu, 2026-03-08 09:45:45

own set of rules of conjugation for all screeves (counterpart of tense-aspect-moods). However, numerous verbs in Georgian do not conform to the conjugation...

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Memoni language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:22:11

adverbs). Verbs are generally conjugated according to person, number, tense, aspect, mood and voice. They may also agree with the person gender, and/or number...

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Kalaw Lagaw Ya
Kamis, 2026-03-26 04:23:38

(aspect, positioning, etc.), suffixes (telicity, number, and two fossilised multiplicative/causative suffixes) and endings (tense, aspect and mood, and...

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Focus (linguistics)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 09:59:15

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Gurindji Kriol language
Senin, 2025-05-05 05:41:37

structure including case-marking, and the verb structure including tense-aspect-mood (TAM) auxiliaries coming from Kriol. In this respect, Gurindji Kriol...

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Voice (grammar)
Kamis, 2026-04-30 15:57:03

predicate. In other languages, such as Latin, the passive voice for some tenses is simply marked on the verb by inflection: librum legit "He reads the book";...

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Comorian languages
Kamis, 2026-04-30 23:41:39

future tense uses tso-, and the conditional uses a-tso-.There are two past tense constructions in Comorian.The first of these is the simple past tense, which...

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Subjectification (linguistics)
Selasa, 2023-07-25 09:29:52

expressed in many grammatical categories, such as person, valence, tense, aspect, mood, evidentials, and deictic expressions more generally. The most prominent...

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Czech conjugation
Jumat, 2025-10-17 19:31:08

tense) – He said Peter had come at five o'clock. Říkal, že to udělá v pátek. (future tense) – He said he would do it on Friday. The imperative mood is...

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Rama language
Senin, 2026-04-27 11:47:47

expanded by adding other elements, including aspect markers (which come between the stem and the tense/mood suffix) and preverbs (which precede the subject...

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Bunun language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 10:37:08

nominalizer) locative focus (LF): -an (also used as a nominalizer) Tense-aspect-mood (TAM) affixes na- irrealis (futurity, consequence, volition, imperatives)...

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Bulgarian verbs
Rabu, 2026-04-29 19:49:17

sometimes gender. They also have lexical aspect (perfective and imperfective), voice, nine tenses, three moods, four evidentials and six non-finite verbal...

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Comitative case
Minggu, 2026-03-22 20:08:06

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Fuliiru language
Selasa, 2026-05-26 12:40:59

to the verb stem of various prefixes which express categories of tense, aspect, mood, person, negation and so forth. Verbs are inflected according to...

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English as a second or foreign language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:59:36

among students from various regions. Tense, aspect, and mood – English has a relatively large number of tense–aspect–mood forms with some quite subtle differences...

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Transitivity (grammar)
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 04:47:35

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Genitive construction
Kamis, 2026-06-04 23:02:17

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Ancient Greek grammar
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 04:53:46

perfect (in all moods) as well as the pluperfect and future perfect carry this combination of relative tense and aspect. The rules on mood sequence (consecutio...

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Oto-Manguean languages
Selasa, 2026-04-28 17:01:22

Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. 1988 Otomangean Tense/Aspect/Mood, Voice, and Nominalization Markers. Manuscript on file, Department...

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Greenlandic language
Minggu, 2026-03-08 21:32:53

morphology includes the processes of obligatory inflection for mood, person and voice (tense and aspect are not inflectional categories in Kalaallisut). Derivational...

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Universal grinder
Selasa, 2026-05-05 01:26:13

Mandarin Chinese. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-030499-2. Filip, Hana (1999). Aspect, Eventuality Types, and Nominal Reference. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-8153-3271-8...

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Classifier (linguistics)
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 01:10:55

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Specificity (linguistics)
Senin, 2025-06-23 16:53:15

including: Singular terms (e.g. proper names) Habituality Actual/Nonactual moods Factivity Negation Specificity does not rely on existence. This is because...

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Byangsi language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 17:52:02

take an aspectivizer. A verb will change form based on tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. Moods include imperative/prohibitive, indicative, infinitive...

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Honorifics (linguistics)
Sabtu, 2025-11-08 23:53:46

choice or by choosing what to say and what not to say. Politeness is one aspect of register, which is a more general concept of choosing a particular variety...

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Patient (grammar)
Selasa, 2026-03-10 06:36:14

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Reciprocal construction
Rabu, 2025-02-12 23:57:38

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Khwe language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:23:01

inventory of head-marking suffixes on nouns and verbs. Verbs take tense-aspect-mood suffixes (TAMs), marking for causative, applicative, comitative, locative...

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Cavineña language
Minggu, 2026-04-12 21:25:28

but are inflected for tense, aspect, mood, negation, and aktionsart, among other categories. There are six tense, aspect, or mood affixes: The following...

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Verbum dicendi
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 18:04:06

complementizer. In other East African languages, they may become markers of Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM). In English, the verb say in particular has also developed the...

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Khwarshi language
Senin, 2025-06-09 00:53:35

noun class and number of the relevant nouns, and a suffix showing tense, aspect, mood, or the like. Only about one fourth of the Khwarshi verbs show agreement...

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Kannada grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-29 04:31:26

in other Dravidian languages. Kannada verbs can be conjugated for tense, aspect, mood, person, number, and gender (in the third person), taking various...

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Singulative number
Selasa, 2026-01-27 05:35:00

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Asur language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:24:30

Asuri is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Asur people, part of the Munda branch. Asuri has many Dravidian loanwords due to contact with Kurukh....

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Misantla Totonac
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:16:57

are uncommon. The Totonac verbal inflectional affixes distinguish tense, aspect, mood, person, and the number of subjects and objects. The grammatical...

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Bengali grammar
Rabu, 2026-06-03 04:47:21

simple tenses: the present tense, the past tense, the conditional or habitual past tense, and the future tense. These combine with mood and aspect to form...

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Zotung language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 05:32:57

stem or base and various conjugation endings indicating person, tense, aspect, mood, and more. One way for fusional inflection in verbs is through a...

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Deontic modality
Senin, 2025-06-23 17:21:16

Retrieved 2009-12-28. Bhat, D. N. Shankara (1999). The prominence of tense, aspect, and mood. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 90-272-3052-8. Loos, Eugene E...

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Conditional sentence
Minggu, 2026-02-15 06:15:21

rules as regards their tense, aspect, and mood. Many languages have a specialized type of verb form called the conditional mood – broadly equivalent in...

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Bulgarian language
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:07:09

in past tense, in the imperfective aspect, and in the indicative mood (since no other mood is shown). There are more than 40 different tenses across Bulgarian's...

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Grammatical number
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:05:11

certain grammatical aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the semelfactive aspect, the iterative aspect, etc. For that use...

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Raga language
Minggu, 2026-05-03 08:51:26

Verbs in Raga are usually preceded by a subject pronoun and by a tense–aspect–mood marker. The subject pronouns are as follows: There is no 3rd person...

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Armenian verbs
Senin, 2025-12-08 19:13:27

verbal system a system that encodes person and number, as well as tense, mood, and aspect (see following section for more.) Armenian inherited from Indo-European...

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Korean verbs
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 08:31:43

up to three suffixes in a row which represent a combination of tense, aspect, and mood. This suffix is an enclitic consonant 'ss ㅆ after the infinitive...

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Kabiye language
Jumat, 2025-07-25 06:37:16

hyphen: The verb phrase is composed of an obligatory root and TAM (tense–aspect–mood) suffix. The TAM suffix may indicate imperative (hàzɩ̀ "sweep!"),...

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Romanian verbs
Kamis, 2026-04-30 19:04:17

Spanish, and Italian. They conjugate according to mood, tense, voice, person and number. Aspect is not an independent feature in Romanian verbs, although...

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Dual (grammatical number)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 01:43:37

"to cook", takes the following forms in the dual number of the present tense, called laṭ lakāra: (In Sanskrit, the order of the persons is reversed.)...

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Finnish conjugation
Rabu, 2026-05-13 13:26:04

Finnish lacks a true future tense, so normally the present tense is used for future time as well. The conditional mood corresponds mostly to 'would'...

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Tooro language
Kamis, 2026-04-09 14:01:03

if the first vowel is before the tense-aspect-mood affix /-a-/ or the refiexive affix /-e-/ in the subjunctive mood, in which case it glides (e.g. o-a-ka-hik-a...

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Uyghur grammar
Rabu, 2025-12-03 17:21:38

book." Verbs in Uyghur inflect in a variety of ways, such as for tense, aspect, and mood. There are two infinitival suffixes in Uyghur, -(I)sh and -mAK...

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Incorporation (linguistics)
Rabu, 2026-03-11 02:47:12

morphology: a factive marker (FACT), which very roughly translates as past tense, although this is not quite accurate; an agreement marker (1.SG), which...

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Ahamb language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:31:59

prefixation or reduplication. Verbs can take a number of prefixed tense/aspect/mood/polarity modifiers and commonly feature a subject index. Subject indexes...

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Ume Sámi
Selasa, 2026-03-17 09:49:24

singular, dual and plural. Verbs in Ume Sámi encode two tenses, present and past, and two grammatical moods: indicative and imperative. Ume Sámi, like all Finnic...

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Italian grammar
Jumat, 2026-02-13 20:37:39

subordinate clause uses the future tense in the indicative mood, not the subjunctive, because the subjunctive has no future tense. Penso che Davide sarà intelligente...

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Verbal case
Kamis, 2023-09-21 06:47:45

When a noun takes certain cases, it may also agree with the verb in tense–aspect–mood, for example, and so not behave as a typical noun. It may refer to...

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Final-over-final constraint
Kamis, 2026-05-07 15:31:53

to account for such counterexamples. For example, sentence-final Tense-Aspect-Mood particles appear in many East Asian and Central African languages...

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Light verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 04:53:11

such instances, the matrix verb typically still bears all of the tense–aspect–mood inflection but contributes little to the sentence semantically (i...

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Xerénte language
Rabu, 2026-03-11 02:09:23

Person Nominative Emphatic Absolutive Tense-Aspect-Mood-Person markers 1S wa wahã ĩ- wa- 1P wanõrĩ (nĩ) - wa- 2S ka, toka kahã ai- bî-, te- 2P kanõrĩ...

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Chungli Ao language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 17:56:30

Chungli Ao verbs are agglutinative, but lack person and number marking. Tense–aspect–mood distinctions are marked by various verbal suffixes. Bruhn provides...

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Turi language
Senin, 2026-03-30 13:09:47

Turi is an endangered Austroasiatic language of India that belongs to the Kherwarian Munda group. Grierson (1906) described that Turi is similar to both...

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English subjunctive
Jumat, 2026-02-20 20:50:16

inept ([since] the morphological marking is one of tense and aspect, not of indicative vs. subjunctive mood), but it is so deeply entrenched that it would...

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Breton grammar
Minggu, 2026-03-15 16:55:19

re "your" ("your ones"). Breton verbs can be conjugated to show tense, aspect, mood, person and number by adding suffixes to the verbal stem. In non-negative...

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Yolmo language
Senin, 2026-05-25 21:35:27

auxiliary verbs and copula verbs. The lexical verbs inflect for tense, aspect, mood and evidence and can take negation. The infinitive form of verbs...

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Cebuano grammar
Selasa, 2026-03-24 01:10:52

generally does not use tense, rather it uses aspect. Cebuano verbs conjugate according to a voice, a mood, a form, and an aspect. According to the functionalist...

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Hungarian verbs
Minggu, 2026-05-03 06:34:07

3 moods: indicative, conditional and subjunctive / imperative. The indicative has a past and non-past tense. The conditional has a non-past tense and...

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Pertensive
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 21:39:31

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Trumai language
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:40:25

Guirardello first discusses them as a form of identifying tense in lieu of the tense–aspect–mood affixes used in English. These word formations are ka in...

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Kabardian verbs
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:46:13

grammatical information: the person and number of its subject and objects, tense, mood, aspect, direction of motion, location, manner, causation, negation, and...

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Slovene verbs
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:38:49

are four grammatical moods: Indicative mood (povednik), which is used to state a fact or opinion in any tense. Imperative mood (velelnik), which is used...

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Sasak language
Kamis, 2026-04-30 09:53:06

those of other western Indonesian languages, are not conjugated for tense, mood or aspect. All affixes are derivational. Verbs may appear in two forms: unmarked...

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Belizean Creole
Kamis, 2026-04-16 21:39:52

conditional mood is expressed through the conditional verbs wuda, mi-wa, and mia. The short version, da, is employed only in the present tense; the past tense requires...

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Sotho verbs
Selasa, 2026-01-13 05:30:35

the Bantu languages. The tenses are conjugated by means of prefixes and infixes indicating person, mood, implication, and aspect. There are two conjugations...

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Debitive mood
Senin, 2026-01-12 11:43:17

būtu bijis jālasa) would be less unorthodox.) More complex compound tenses/moods can be formed as well, e.g., quotative debitive: man būšot jālasa – "I...

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Tifal language
Jumat, 2026-01-02 06:14:26

intransitive verbs. Most final verbs mark tense, mood, and person, but most verbs can mark aspect and not tense and still be a final verb. "initial consonant...

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Dative shift
Minggu, 2025-12-21 14:47:13

Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice General features Affect Boundedness...

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Infinitive
Selasa, 2026-01-06 03:28:47

infinitives may be marked for grammatical categories like voice, aspect, and to some extent tense. This may be done by inflection, as with the Latin perfect...

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Doromu language
Selasa, 2026-04-14 02:37:53

In Doromu verbs may have suffixes, which affect tense, aspect, mood, or switch reference. Past tense First person singular is indicated by -(y)aka Second...

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Latin tenses (semantics)
Selasa, 2025-10-14 02:09:47

"Actionality, tense, and viewpoint". In Baldi, Philip; Cuzzolin, Pierluigi (eds.) (2012). Constituent Syntax: Adverbial Phrases, Adverbs, Mood, Tense. ISBN 978-3110205633...

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Portuguese grammar
Kamis, 2026-04-30 17:37:14

inflected: there are three tenses (past, present, future), three moods (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), three aspects (perfective, imperfective,...

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Polabian language
Minggu, 2026-05-10 07:37:59

metathesis of Proto-Slavic *TorT; the presence of an aorist and imperfect verb tenses, traces of the dual number, and some prosodic features, as well as by some...

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Defective verb
Rabu, 2026-05-13 05:49:09

and thus cannot be conjugated for certain grammatical tenses, aspects, persons, genders, or moods that the majority of verbs or a "normal" or regular verb...

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Central Atlas Tamazight grammar
Senin, 2025-04-28 22:13:11

('this house'), /tadːartnːa/ ('that house'). Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, voice, and polarity, and agree with the number, person, and gender...

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Modern Hebrew verbs
Senin, 2026-05-04 13:18:50

which take the form of derived stems, are conjugated to reflect their tense and mood, as well as to agree with their subjects in gender, number, and person...

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Nonfinite verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 10:04:29

languages include converbs, gerundives and supines. The categories of mood, tense, and voice may be absent from nonfinite verb forms in some languages...

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Macedonian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:55:03

Macedonian verbs, namely type, transitiveness, mood, superordinate aspect (imperfective/perfective aspect). Verb forms can also be classified as simple...

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Serbo-Croatian grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-26 09:56:31

aspect, which can be either perfective (signifying a completed action) or imperfective (action is incomplete or repetitive). There are seven tenses,...

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Quirky subject
Minggu, 2025-11-30 20:05:53

with split ergativity based on tense or aspect—such as Middle Persian and Kurdish—the alignment reverses in the past tense: the logical agent appears in...

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Jita language
Selasa, 2026-03-31 01:40:52

High tone): As noted by Guthrie (1967), Jita has a "wealth" of verb tense/aspect/mood (TAM) paradigms. Downing (1990, 1996, 2014) and Odom & Robinson (2016)...

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Volapük
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:35:06

suffix -ön. It can be combined with tense/aspect prefixes: Logön to see, elogön to have seen. Interrogative mood Yes–no questions are indicated with the...

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A-Hmao language
Kamis, 2026-05-14 22:01:29

are monosyllables, resulting in verbs not being overtly inflected. Tense, aspect, mood, person, number, gender, and case are indicated lexically. Single-morpheme...

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Yimas language
Selasa, 2026-01-13 11:14:00

that which indicates tense. Yimas has an elaborate tense-marking system, as illustrated below for the verb wa- 'go'. The tense suffix follows the verb...

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Magar Kham language
Selasa, 2026-02-17 03:44:16

'kurupci' ('[feminine] scar-face'). Verbs in Kham inflect for various tense, aspect, mood, and mode categories, voices, negation, person/number of the subject...

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Ale language
Rabu, 2025-07-09 23:10:28

by the negativ Selektor „ye“. Auch in Gawwada können Verben nach Tense, Aspect, Mood und Modality unterschieden werden. Außerdem gibt es in Gawwada die...

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Nzadi language
Kamis, 2026-01-29 02:25:36

though if the object is a pronoun referring to a human, the verb or Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) marker may change form to agree with it. Nzadi is more isolating...

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Grammatical particle
Jumat, 2026-04-24 22:54:55

are almost devoid of inflection, use particles extensively to indicate mood, tense, and case. In modern grammar, a particle is a function word that must...

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Portuguese conjugation
Kamis, 2026-04-30 18:29:47

third Three aspects—perfective, imperfective, progressive* Two voices—active, passive* Six morphological forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods—present,...

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Fwe language
Jumat, 2026-01-16 09:09:52

placement. Tones will impact many elements of Fwe language, including tense-aspect-mood marking, which utilizes high floating or "melodic tone." Placing high...

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Colognian proverbial expressions
Selasa, 2025-05-27 20:06:14

Articles Adjectives Prepositions Nouns Pronouns Declension Verbs Tense-Aspect-Mood Modal particle Conjugation Adverbial phrases Idioms Proverbial expressions...

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Adyghe verbs
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:45:58

Yury (2021). The Northwest Caucasian Languages. p. 32. Workshop "Tense, aspect and mood categories across languages", 52 nd annual meeting of Societas Linguistica...

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Agglutination
Rabu, 2026-05-06 15:09:39

conjugation. In all Dravidian languages, verbal markers are used to convey tense and mood, and usually person (though Malayalam is an exception to the latter)...

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Iñupiaq language
Jumat, 2026-04-17 17:51:07

for person, number, and mood (all marked by a single suffix), and can have other inflectional suffixes such as tense, aspect, modality, and various suffixes...

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Rapa language
Jumat, 2026-04-10 23:20:35

Some examples of Reo Rapa grammar are shown below. Perfective TAM (Tense – Aspect – Mood) /ka/ ka PFV rāhi much para ripe te INDEF taofe coffee ka rāhi para...

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Burmese grammar
Senin, 2025-12-29 07:24:17

have inherent temporality that can be specified with markers for tense, aspect and mood. However, the inherent temporality can also be implied by modifying...

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Kayardild language
Jumat, 2026-05-08 13:02:11

(2016). "The theory of feature systems: one feature versus two for Kayardild tense-aspect-mood". Morphology. 27 (1): 1–55. doi:10.1007/s11525-016-9294-3....

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Russian grammar
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:30:16

in particular, aorist, imperfect, etc., are considered verbal tenses, rather than aspects, because ancient examples of them are attested for both perfective...

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East Ambae language
Jumat, 2025-08-08 02:23:40

There is no grammatical means to mark TAM (Tense, Aspect, Mood) in nonverbal clauses, therefore, tense may only be understood from the semantic context...

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Nambikwara language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 07:37:26

Specifically, he describes Nambikwra parts of speech, word order, tense, aspect, mood, voice, clause structures, and noun incorporation. Kroeker (2001)...

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Going-to future
Kamis, 2026-04-16 12:13:59

by Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler, Genoveva Puskás (2007). Tense, Mood and Aspect: Theoretical and Descriptive Issues. Rodopi. p. 10. ISBN 978-90-420-2208-9...

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Erromanga language
Jumat, 2026-03-06 06:42:59

inflectional sets of subject markers on verbs expressing a variety of tense-aspect-mood categories. Not only is this an unusually large number of inflectional...

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Bemba language
Kamis, 2025-11-06 18:08:59

according to person, number and class of subject and object, tense, mood, voice, aspect and whether they are affirmative or negative. Further, their stems...

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Ghanaian Pidgin English
Kamis, 2026-05-28 09:51:04

related to tense, aspect, and mood are expressed through preverbal particles, which constitute a central component of GSPE morphology. Aspect Markers* dey...

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Dirasha language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:14:36

(genitive, indefinite) The Diraytata language inflects verbs based on tense, aspect, and mood by using a combination of prefixes, suffixes, and tone patterns...

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Lele language (Chad)
Rabu, 2025-12-03 07:57:19

possessor is indexed by a pronominal word following the noun. The tense-aspect-mood system includes four verbal forms labeled "past", "future", "nominal"...

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Latvian grammar
Jumat, 2025-12-12 03:24:39

construction as a grammatical mood); and debitive (for expressing obligation). The relations between tenses and moods are shown in the following table...

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Functional item
Selasa, 2025-02-11 14:30:47

"Syntax A Generative Introduction", Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, p. 53-54. Tense-Aspect-Mood. Cf. Talmy Givón (2001), Syntax: An Introduction, Volume 1, Amsterdam:...

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Kove language
Senin, 2024-11-11 04:33:26

nominalizers, particles, possessive markers, pronouns, reciprocal markers, tense, aspect, mood markers, and all other elements not included in the other two classes...

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Colognian idioms
Selasa, 2025-07-29 09:30:29

Articles Adjectives Prepositions Nouns Pronouns Declension Verbs Tense-Aspect-Mood Modal particle Conjugation Adverbial phrases Idioms Proverbial expressions...

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Spanish irregular verbs
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 22:28:49

a complex area of Spanish grammar, with many combinations of tenses, aspects and moods (up to fifty conjugated forms per verb). Although conjugation...

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Colognian grammar
Minggu, 2024-09-22 17:37:38

conjugations, which mark verbs to distinguish person, number, voice, aspect, tense, mood, modality, etc. Colognian basic verbs are classified as strong, weak...

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Conditional perfect
Selasa, 2025-12-16 07:11:32

perfect is a grammatical construction that combines the conditional mood with perfect aspect. A typical example is the English would have written. The conditional...

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Ilocano verbs
Minggu, 2024-09-29 04:53:10

for aspect. Ilocano verbs can also be cast in any one of five foci or triggers. In turn, these foci can inflect for different grammatical moods. An important...

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Mekéns language
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 13:21:53

other affixes employed in Mekéns are suffixes which mark number, tense-aspect-mood and category change (nominalization and verbalization).[citation needed]...

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Upper Sorbian language
Selasa, 2026-05-26 14:00:19

słowjeso) such as tense (tempus, čas), mood, aspect (aspekt, wid), voice, person (wosoba), number, and gender. Within the tense category, besides present...

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Infinitive (Ancient Greek)
Rabu, 2026-04-08 14:55:45

sometimes called a verb mood, with no endings for person or number, but it is (unlike in Modern English) inflected for tense and voice (for a general...

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Esperanto grammar
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:42:51

tenses), or one of three moods (indicative, conditional, or volitive; of which the indicative has three tenses), and are derived for several aspects,...

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Kabyle grammar
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 03:44:59

inflect for four paradigms of tense–aspect–mood, three of them conventionally labelled the preterite (expressing perfective aspect), intensive aorist (expressing...

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Modal verb
Rabu, 2026-01-28 00:44:13

languages, tense markers are used, albeit infrequently, before modals: Gon kaen kam "is going to be able to come". Waz "was" can indicate past tense before...

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Participle
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:10:11

the past tense (were), but a present participle expresses the progressive aspect (be standing). The second sentence is in the future tense (will), but...

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Hindustani grammar
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:30:19

the aspect marker. The second element (the copula) is the common tense-mood marker. Hindustani has three aspects, Habitual aspect, Perfective Aspect and...

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Latin grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:42:47

case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood. The inflections are often changes in the ending of a word,...

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Macedonian grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:26:28

The aspect system is pervasive in Macedonian; verbs can be used in either the imperfective or perfective aspects across most tenses and moods. The present...

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Vav-consecutive
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:11:35

involves a verb form prefixed with the letter waw with a change in its tense or aspect. Biblical Hebrew has two main ways that each verb can be conjugated...

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Narration
Minggu, 2026-05-17 01:26:31

knowledge that the narrator presents Narrative tense: the choice of either the past or present grammatical tense to establish either the prior completion or...

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Subjunctive (Ancient Greek)
Kamis, 2025-10-02 22:42:25

silent (present)? The subjunctive mood can also be used for 2nd person negative commands, but only with the aorist tense. The negative, as with almost all...

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Nganasan language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:04:56

imperative, have the same personal suffixes. Tenses are distinguished in the indicative, imperative and interrogative moods (Tereščenko, 1979). Most corresponding...

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Ukrainian grammar
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:35:17

cases and two numbers for its nominal declension and two aspects, three tenses, three moods, and two voices for its verbal conjugation. Adjectives agree...

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Bagirmi Fulfulde
Kamis, 2024-12-26 10:13:53

Bagirmi Fulfulde typically undergo various conjugations to indicate tense, aspect, and mood. Bagirmi Fulfulde shares core grammatical features with other varieties...

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Hungarian grammar
Minggu, 2025-10-05 07:12:39

according to vowel harmony. Verbs are conjugated according to definiteness, tense, mood, person and number. Nouns can be declined with 18 case suffixes, most...

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Ubykh grammar
Minggu, 2026-02-22 08:26:51

tenses or polite imperative Causative stem Intensifying suffix Habitual aspect Iterative aspect Exhaustive aspect Excessive aspect Continual aspect Potential...

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Nisenan language
Minggu, 2026-01-04 08:23:04

my-ne "his, her, their mother". Verbs in Nisenan are inflected for tense, mood, aspect, person, and number. However, the verbal paradigm is remarkably defective...

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Unserdeutsch
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 19:44:45

that functions similarly to English past tense would phrases. The wit auxiliary can also express conditional aspect, although this usage is rare. Jetz i wit...

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Catalan grammar
Selasa, 2026-03-24 16:22:53

inflected for gender. Highly inflected verbs, for person, number, tense, aspect, and mood (including a subjunctive). Word order is freer than in English...

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Cape Verdean Creole
Rabu, 2026-06-03 16:12:33

are reduced to a form for the present tense and a form for the past tense, and the notions of mood and aspect are expressed through verbal actualizers...

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Dhanggati language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 08:08:26

on transitivity, with complex word building patterns to express tense, aspect, mood, and to derive other verbs and nominal forms. Dyangadi languages...

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Neuroticism
Kamis, 2026-05-28 11:04:15

to stress. They tend to be calm, even-tempered, and less likely to feel tense or rattled. Although they are low in negative emotion, they are not necessarily...

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Mbay language
Selasa, 2025-10-07 21:40:15

suffixes, tone changes and auxiliary verbs you are able to inflect tense, mood and aspect. Past, present, past are marked by auxiliary words, particles or...

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Dalabon language
Jumat, 2026-02-20 16:54:32

prefixes COM: comitative applicative RR: reflexive/reciprocal TAM: tense/aspect mood The diminutive enclitic =wurd is derived from noun wurd 'woman's child'...

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Tima language
Selasa, 2025-11-04 07:52:08

not know when yet. Grammatically this tense is marked with the usual future tense morpheme 'dV-' plus an aspect marker 'cV-'. When expressing something...

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Guarani language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:01:58

inflectional affixes, are the changes in a word to mark differentiations in tense, person, mood, voice, case, and number of speakers. Inflectional affixes can be...

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Copula (linguistics)
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 03:14:52

after any tense/mood/aspect particles (such as pa to mark negation, or te to explicitly mark past tense, or ap to mark progressive aspect), se comes...

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Baluan-Pam language
Minggu, 2025-04-20 19:55:07

Only verbs, however, can take bound pronouns and be modified by tense–aspect–mood (TAM) particles. The major closed classes in the language, containing...

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Biblical Hebrew
Rabu, 2026-04-22 09:41:21

Verbs were marked for voice and mood, and had two conjugations that may have indicated aspect or tense. The tense or aspect of verbs was also influenced...

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Chewa language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:38:43

there)' One tense has no tense-marker: ndí-gula 'I will buy (soon)' Tenses can be modified further by adding certain other infixes, called 'aspect-markers'...

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Gothic verbs
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:46:49

and optative (the past tense uses periphrasis). This contrasts a present tense such as gibada ("is being given") with a past tense gibans was* ("was given...

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TAST
Sabtu, 2021-01-16 09:41:28

from 5 till 7.” Mezhevich, Ilana (2008) Time-Relational Approach to Tense and Mood. Bybee, Joan (1995) Modality & Grammar in Discourse. Amsterdam, John...

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Sowa language
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 00:50:21

preceded by markers providing information on the subject and the tense, aspect and mood of an action. Like in Ske, these may have been complicated and subject...

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Punic language
Jumat, 2026-05-01 00:08:50

tense, but it may also refer to the past or future. Tense, aspect, and mood of verbal forms were determined by syntax, not by morphology. The tense,...

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Shanghainese
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:52:24

undergo any sort of conjugation to express tense or person. However, the language does have a richly developed aspect system, expressed using various particles...

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Mise-en-scène
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 19:10:51

understanding of characters, actions, themes, and mood. Light (and shade) can emphasize texture, shape, distance, mood, time of day, season, and glamour; it affects...

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Wayuu language
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 15:25:12

inanimate, and the general plural. These suffixes can manifest in tense, aspect, and mood suffixes for verbs, derivational words, the definite article suffixes...

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Kashubian grammar
Selasa, 2024-09-03 09:43:17

that of other Slavic languages, including case, number, gender, tense, aspect, and mood. Kashubian displays seven cases inherited from Proto-Slavic. They...

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Old Nubian
Kamis, 2026-04-30 19:50:54

far the most complex part of its grammar, allowing for valency, tense, mood, aspect, person and pluractionality to be expressed on it through a variety...

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Tayo Creole
Jumat, 2026-01-16 08:11:48

ki? you see who “Who did you see?” Siegel's (2008) analysis of tense, mood and aspect marking in Kanak substrate languages and Tayo Creole supports the...

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Western Niger Fulfulde
Jumat, 2025-12-12 07:16:23

to a root word to convey various grammatical meanings, such as tense, aspect, and mood. Verbal morphology is particularly complex, with a variety of affixes...

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Buru language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 04:05:12

and even clause level by means of auxiliaries, parts of the TAM (Tense-aspect-mood) system, tags, and other such modifiers. Grimes classifies these items...

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Finnish grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-14 23:41:36

imperfect, perfect and pluperfect tense-aspect forms. Present (nonpast): corresponds to English present and future tense forms. For the latter, a time qualifier...

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Navajo grammar
Senin, 2026-02-16 09:35:21

incomplete. Although this mode does not refer to tense, it can usually be translated into English as a present tense form: yishááh "I'm (in the act of) going/coming"...

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Modern Greek grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:31:04

two aspects: imperfective perfective and two tenses: past non-past (or present) The aspects are expressed by distinct verb stems, while the tenses are...

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Nuu-chah-nulth language
Rabu, 2026-04-08 13:49:37

mood, aspect or tense. Aspects in Nuu-chah-nulth help specify an action's extension over time and its relation to other events. Up to seven aspects can...

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Central Kanuri
Kamis, 2026-04-09 21:59:41

noun classes; and a complex system of verbal inflections to mark tense, aspect, and mood. Noun classes play a crucial role in Central Kanuri and influence...

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Colognian declension
Jumat, 2025-10-10 21:58:37

in Colognian. They all have in common that they link declension with an aspect of conjugation with their forms. While Colognian declension follows a case...

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Malayalam grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:36:46

Nouns are inflected for case and number, while verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, and causativity. In archaic forms, verbs were also conjugated for person...

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Gutob language
Senin, 2026-04-27 13:29:15

In affirmative constructions, these markers would express the imperative mood. The negative past form is ar-X=to regardless of whether it is in the active...

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Tupi language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:02:11

pronouns) but not for tense or mood (the very notion of mood is absent). All verbs are in the present tense. Nouns are "declined" for tense by means of suffixing...

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Icelandic grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-19 21:23:16

conjugated for tense, mood, person, number and voice. There are three voices: active, passive and medial. There are only two simple tenses, past and present...

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Mixtec languages
Minggu, 2026-01-18 23:32:43

the indicative mood are described above, in the section on verb tenses. Imperative mood Imperatives are formed by adding the particle -ni to the future...

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Krio language
Rabu, 2026-04-15 11:24:24

reflect their tense. Tense, aspect and mood are marked by one or more tense or aspect markers. The tense markers are 'bin' for the past tense and 'go' for...

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Isolating language
Selasa, 2026-02-17 12:36:16

aspect meaning, and the inflectional morpheme -yat/-ят inflects for four units of meaning (third-person subject, plural subject, present/future tense...

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German conjugation
Kamis, 2026-05-14 17:40:53

and number of the subject of a sentence, as well as depending on the tense and mood. The citation form of German verbs is the infinitive form, which generally...

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Andoque language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 08:53:47

predicates are also marked with prefixes indicating mood, direction or aspect, and infixes for tense. The nominal predicate (What something is) does not...

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Mankanya language
Kamis, 2026-01-15 06:04:21

a participle suffix can derive nouns or adjectives from verbs. Tense, aspect, and mood marked in clauses partially by verb morphology, along with a number...

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Itzaʼ language
Selasa, 2025-10-28 07:39:21

the discourse, creating larger discourse units. The categories tense, aspect, and mood are interwoven in Itzaj Maya verbal and adverbial morphosyntax...

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Lezgian language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:04:41

converb, and immediate-anterior converb can be formed. There are 6 total tense-aspect categories. There are four basic ones (imperfective, future, aorist,...

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Sumerian language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 11:47:23

consistently follows this ergative principle regardless of tense/aspect, person and mood. Besides the general meanings of the case forms outlined above...

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Stative verb
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 09:52:48

to bark. Lexical aspect Copula Active–stative alignment Binnick, Robert I. (1991). Time and the verb : a guide to tense and aspect. New York: Oxford...

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Warndarrang language
Rabu, 2026-05-20 01:46:37

above), an inflected verb stem, and a set of suffixes marking tense, mood, and aspect. There might be other prefixes in front of the pronominal prefix...

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Dutch conjugation
Kamis, 2026-04-16 02:38:58

different aspects of verb structure and usage. Dutch verbs can be grouped by their conjugational class, as follows: Weak verbs: past tense and past participle...

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Irish grammar
Rabu, 2026-03-25 04:10:31

that, for example, "He hit me" is Bhuail [hit-past tense] sé [he] mé [me]. One distinctive aspect of Irish is the distinction between is, the copula (known...

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Interslavic
Kamis, 2026-05-14 03:37:49

to be learned separately. The various moods and tenses are formed by means of the following endings: Present tense: -ų, -eš, -e, -emo, -ete, -ųt (first...

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Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Rabu, 2026-03-04 00:10:29

Her primary research interests are second-language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems and interlanguage pragmatics. Bardovi-Harlig is credited for...

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Southern Yukaghir language
Minggu, 2026-04-19 02:21:44

emphatic. Tense and Mood The only specific tense distinction in Kolyma Yukaghir is Future versus Non-Future, which is unmarked. Past tense forms can be...

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Clause
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:17:06

non-finite, i.e. they do not contain any element/verb marking a specific tense. A clause that contains one or more dependent or subordinate clauses is...

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Udmurt grammar
Jumat, 2026-01-30 02:07:26

moods in Udmurt: indicative, conditional and imperative. There is also an optative mood used in certain dialects. The indicative mood has four tenses:...

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Germanic verbs
Senin, 2026-02-16 19:58:38

is essentially an early step in the development of the stative aspect to a past tense, being a hybrid of the two that emphasizes the ongoing (present/stative)...

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Scottish Gaelic grammar
Rabu, 2026-05-20 21:51:54

preposition where they act as the sense verb, and a stative verb conveys tense, aspect and mood information, in a pattern that is familiar from other Indo-European...

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Meitei grammar
Rabu, 2025-12-03 09:25:55

or expanding words, final particles, a focus on aspect (how an action is happening) instead of tense (when it happens), no gender marking, a verb-final...

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Anfillo language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 08:54:32

subject–object–verb. Nouns follow their modifier. Verbs are inflected for tense, aspect and mood. Three tenses are marked morphologically: present, past, and future. Gender...

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Pronouns in Colognian
Minggu, 2026-03-15 03:18:18

in Colognian. They all have in common that they link declension with an aspect of conjugation with their forms. Colognian declension follows a case, gender...

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English language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 17:54:11

are relied upon for many functions, including the expression of tense, aspect, and mood. Auxiliary verbs form main clauses, and the main verbs function...

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Compound verb
Selasa, 2026-01-27 20:43:58

light verb or vector, which carries any inflections, indicating tense, mood, or aspect, but provides only fine shades of meaning. The other, "primary"...

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German verbs
Selasa, 2026-03-24 15:13:30

conditional mood in German (English: I would). Unlike English, German tenses do not carry aspect information. There are no progressive tenses in standard...

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Turkish language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 08:46:08

grammatical features include evidentiality, converbs, and a variety of tenses, aspects, and moods. Turkish phonology is marked by vowel harmony; native words typically...

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Moghol language
Senin, 2026-04-27 00:28:24

marked for number and case. Verbs are marked for person, number, tense-aspect and mood. Adjectives inflect for the comparative and superlative degree with...

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Mewari language
Selasa, 2026-04-21 03:19:11

but also in remote-proximal level. There are three tenses—present, past, and future; and four moods. Adjective are of two types—marked or unmarked. Three...

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Preverb
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:23:31

rather than to the verb stem. Their meaning can range from past tense or perfective aspect to meanings for which English might use an adverb or another verb...

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Akuntsu language
Senin, 2026-05-18 10:01:45

head" - "I pull and pull my head repeatedly"]). As for the mood, Akuntsu uses the indicative mood, which has no explicit marking in the language, and is therefore...

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Neverver language
Kamis, 2026-04-30 03:43:04

are cross-referenced with a subject/mood prefix which is attached to the verb stem in realis tense. These subject/mood prefixes differ from independent personal...

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Dagbani language
Minggu, 2026-03-15 23:41:57

projecting various functional phrasal categories including tense, aspect, negation, mood and the conjoint/disjoint paradigm. Dawuni Dawuni kú-r-í kill-IPFV-CONJ...

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Cartographic syntax
Senin, 2026-04-13 09:52:55

minimal projection of functional categories such as Agreement (Agr), Tense, Aspect and Mood (TAM). They are different than lexical heads as they are not part...

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English irregular verbs
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 20:16:12

prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle. The other inflected parts...

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Swedish grammar
Selasa, 2026-05-26 06:24:13

They inflect for the present and past tense and the imperative, subjunctive, and indicative mood. Other tenses are formed by combinations of auxiliary...

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Romance copula
Minggu, 2025-08-10 21:00:37

person singular, present tense, subjunctive mood) Derivation from svm: svmvs → somos (1st person plural, present tense, indicative mood) The infinitive (on...

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Patsho Khiamniungan
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:53:22

desinence of words, but the tense (in a sentence) is clarified by the aspect and the addition of some particles, such as -e (Irrealis mood suffix -encoding a hypothetical...

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Latin
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:03:23

with classes of inflections for case, number, person, gender, tense, mood, voice, and aspect. The Latin alphabet is directly derived from the Etruscan and...

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Kazakh language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 15:42:43

by reduplication. Kazakh may express different combinations of tense, aspect and mood through the use of various verbal morphology or through a system...

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Wayana language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 07:30:40

outlines the two "sets" of verbs found in Wayana ("Set I" –on which tense, aspect, and mood are marked through affixes, and t-V-(he) verbs – so-called due...

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Proto-Germanic language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:53:28

and subjunctive moods are fully conjugated throughout the present and past, while the imperative mood existed only in the present tense and lacked first-person...

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Modern Greek
Rabu, 2026-05-27 19:20:13

future tense and conditional mood auxiliary verb forms for certain verb forms (in particular the perfect tense) aspectual distinction in future tense between...

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Saho–Afar languages
Selasa, 2025-02-04 09:47:53

and declarative moods. The past tense of suffix-conjugated verbs uses in addition a single negative suffix for both, the present tense lacks a distinct...

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Hopi time controversy
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:23:09

distinction between an unmarked non-future tense and a future tense marked with the -ni suffix, and a habitual aspect marked by the suffix -ngwu. The review...

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Tumse Milke Wrong Number
Rabu, 2026-06-03 16:08:03

want of thrills and tense moments. It is bland mood right from the beginning to the end. That is by large the only consistent aspect of Wrong Number.″ Jha...

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Muscogee language
Kamis, 2026-04-30 03:30:38

the person, number, and location of participants as well as the tense, aspect, and mood of the sentence. Nouns have fewer affixes, but compounding is used...

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Proto-Indo-European root
Minggu, 2026-03-22 01:06:29

about tense and aspect, two grammatical categories that are not clearly distinguished. Imperfective (present, durative) and perfective aspect (aorist...

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Polish grammar
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:30:05

imperfective aspect, the second perfective. Imperfective verbs have three tenses: present, past and future, the last being a compound tense (except in the...

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Otomi language
Rabu, 2026-05-06 00:08:25

morphemes can be analysed as either proclitics or prefixes and mark tense, aspect and mood. Verbs are inflected for either direct object or dative object (but...

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Chinese grammar
Kamis, 2026-04-16 11:39:06

verb tense are often not expressed by grammatical means, but there are several particles that serve to express verbal aspect and, to some extent, mood. The...

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Japanese language
Jumat, 2026-04-17 13:10:00

in Japanese are conjugated, kanji alone cannot fully convey Japanese tense and mood, as kanji cannot be subject to variation when written without losing...

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Pichinglis
Rabu, 2026-06-03 05:36:43

'They stole my shoes from me.' Pichi is an aspect-prominent language in which aspect (and mood), rather than tense plays a dominant role in expressing temporal...

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Farefare language
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 20:54:41

particles encode aspect, tense, negation, and mood, such as imperative and conditional. Postverbal particles also encode aspect and tense, but in addition...

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English conditional sentences
Senin, 2025-01-27 22:26:10

tense. The fourth is an example of the use of will in a condition clause (for more such cases, see below). The use of verb tenses, moods and aspects in...

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Joan Bybee
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:47:16

cross-linguistic patterns in morphological systems with respect to tense, aspect and mood. This work runs counter to Chomskyan generative theory, which describes...

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Serbian language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:20:24

conditional mood by some contemporary linguists), and one present tense. These are the tenses of the indicative mood. Apart from the indicative mood, there...

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Indo-European copula
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 19:00:05

location missing publisher (link) VAN OLPHEN, HERMAN (1975). "Aspect, Tense, and Mood in the Hindi Verb". Indo-Iranian Journal. 16 (4): 296. doi:10...

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Zulu grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:21:42

classes, extensive inflection for person (both subject and object), tense and aspect, and a subject–verb–object word order. Zulu orthography does not indicate...

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Odia grammar
Selasa, 2026-06-02 18:00:04

stem + aspect + auxiliary + tense/mood + person/number. For example, khā-u-thā-nt-ā means "he/she would have been eating." Odia has 5 tenses/moods: the...

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Borgu Fulfulde
Selasa, 2025-08-05 18:05:45

Syntactically, it features a system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, aspect, and mood. Borgu Fulfulde traditionally uses the Latin alphabet for written...

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Lotha language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 10:51:26

verbs are marked for tense, aspect, and the imperative mood, but are not marked for person nor number. Lotha marks for three tenses with suffixes, namely...

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Griko language
Kamis, 2026-05-14 20:02:13

and vocative. Verbs are conjugated according to person, number, tense, mood, and aspect. The table below shows the personal pronouns of the Griko language:...

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Punjabi grammar
Selasa, 2026-04-21 20:01:16

system is can be described largely in terms of aspect and mood. Most Punjabi verbs do not inflect for tense—the only verb which does is the copular verb...

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Tamil language
Selasa, 2026-05-26 12:58:08

number, mood, tense, and voice. Person and number are indicated by suffixing the oblique case of the relevant pronoun. The suffixes to indicate tenses and...

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Japanese conjugation
Selasa, 2026-04-21 21:08:54

meanings such as negation, present and past tense, volition, passive voice, causation, imperative and conditional mood, and ability. There are also special forms...

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Setting (narrative)
Rabu, 2025-11-12 20:45:07

fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world or milieu to include...

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Gerd Jendraschek
Kamis, 2025-10-30 08:20:27

Linguistics 3: 1-33. Jendraschek, Gerd. 2014. Future tense, prospective aspect, and irrealis mood as part of the situation perspective: Insights from Basque...

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Kwomtari language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:08:41

suffixally on the verb. Verbs are inflected for status (mood) rather than for tense or aspect. Ethnologue lists Kwomtari as spoken in six villages in...

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Wuvulu-Aua language
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 15:50:27

Wuvulu lacks verbal tense; however, it uses mood, aspect markers, and time phrases to convey tense. Realis mood conveys past tense. (na-) ro=na-biri=ʔia...

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Chavacano
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:34:01

impossibility) the subject rather than the predicate in the future tense: Future Tense Nunca el maga/mana negociante (subject) ay comprá (verb) con el tierra...

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Catalan verbs
Rabu, 2026-01-21 14:42:06

subjuntiu), e.g. hagués parlat ("that I had spoken") The perfective tense in the indicative mood has two remote-past forms, analogous to the English simple past...

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Tswa language
Senin, 2025-02-24 06:26:51

verbs change according to status (affirmative/negative), mood (indicative/potential), aspect, tense, number, person and class. The usual three persons used...

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Aramba language
Minggu, 2026-02-15 01:26:47

there are also a number of adverbs indicating tense, aspect or mood: tó 'past tense', ya 'future tense', wàrye 'still', xut 'again', añgu 'no matter'...

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Kwaza language
Jumat, 2026-04-24 21:36:55

in Kwaza includes valency and valency change, negation, modality, aspect, and tense which are marked with various optional verbal morphemes. Some modality...

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Tick, Tick, Tick (film)
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 21:44:36

cult classic for its cutting-edge portrayal of racial relations and its tense narrative. It was the first MGM film released in the 1970s. In a small Southern...

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Abkhaz language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:38:12

standard English verbs. Dynamic verbs possess the full range of aspect, mood and tense forms, in contrast to statives, which do not. Some verbs, called...

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Central Hessian
Selasa, 2026-05-26 06:05:46

as High German. Verbs inflect for person, number and tense and periphrastically for mood and aspect. Pronouns to a higher degree than nouns inflect for...

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Nukak language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 09:11:04

and with suffixes and infixes expressing aspect (continuous, immediate); tense (past, present, future) and mood (imperative, desiderative, interrogative)...

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English passive voice
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:10:39

the passive voice (be or get) may appear in any combination of tense, aspect and mood, and can also appear in non-finite form (infinitive, participle...

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Tagalog grammar
Senin, 2026-05-25 22:40:09

suffixes, circumfixes, and clitic particles to express voice/"trigger", aspect, mood, and valency changes, resulting in morphologically complex predicate...

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Proto-Italic verbs
Kamis, 2026-06-04 22:17:49

complex system of inflectional morphology with conjugation according to mood, voice, tense, person, and number. The South Picene form videtas possibly reflects...

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Italian conjugation
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:33:49

patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns...

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Old Japanese
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:44:42

modal and conjunctional purposes. Other categories, such as voice, tense, aspect and mood, are expressed by using optional suffixed auxiliaries, which are...

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Yiddish grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-29 23:11:12

(1–2): 199–206. doi:10.1163/22134638-12340031. Gold, Elaine (1999). Aspect, tense, and the lexicon: Expression of time in Yiddish. Toronto Working Papers...

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Temoaya Otomi
Jumat, 2025-08-15 23:34:51

(dual/plural)": On verbs all of the categories of person of subject, tense, aspect and mood are marked by the means of a single prefix on each verb. The categories...

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Iatmul language
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 07:57:36

come-IRR-1SG 'I will come' The imperfective aspect marker -ti'~li' occurs most often with the present tense. Therefore, in some constructions in which...

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Githabul language
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 12:23:26

suffixes. It is an aspect-dominant language, as opposed to tense-dominant like English. Githabul suffixes mostly conjugate for aspect and mood. Verb suffixes...

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Middle Persian
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 18:02:48

the present tense, although it does continue to distinguish to a greater or lesser extent four different moods. The past and perfect tenses are expressed...

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Balthasar Bickel
Kamis, 2026-01-22 12:56:32

of Johanna Nichols. Bickel has made contributions to the study of tense and aspect, grammatical agreement and grammatical relations, morphological typology...

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Anxiety
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:29:47

include feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching for...

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Pantesco dialect
Rabu, 2026-02-25 04:22:03

using a clitic pronoun to form the progressive aspect. The following examples display the indicative mood of the two main conjugations of regular verbs...

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Thai language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:32:51

/kʰǎw tīː tɕʰǎn/ 3SG hit 1SG 'S/He hit me.' In order to convey tense, aspect and mood (TAM), the Thai verbal system employs auxiliaries and verb serialization...

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Shall and will
Selasa, 2026-04-28 20:00:13

propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of English. Historically, prescriptive grammar stated that, when expressing...

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Proto-Indo-European language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:32:59

person with the verb, which was additionally marked for voice, tense, aspect, and mood. Proto-Indo-European nominals and verbs were primarily composed...

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American and British English grammatical differences
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:48:18

became standard to treat the United States as a singular noun. The past tense and past participle of the verbs learn, spoil, spell, burn, dream, smell...

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Desano language
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 16:23:25

target verb (illustrated by T, e, and R). Overall, Desano tense works closely with its unique mood system, which also embeds emotion into the written form...

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Proto-Afroasiatic language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 21:25:14

though there is disagreement about what those forms were and what tenses, aspects, or moods they expressed. There is also widespread agreement that there...

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Cantonese grammar
Minggu, 2026-01-04 05:24:02

Cantonese verbs are marked for aspect rather than tense—that is, whether an event has begun, is ongoing, or has been completed. Tense—where an event occurs within...

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Antagonist
Selasa, 2026-05-05 16:22:24

application of the law, even when it leads to moral and ethical dilemmas. An aspect or trait of the protagonist may be considered an antagonist, such as morality...

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Old Telugu
Jumat, 2026-02-27 23:00:56

verb morphology was highly developed with distinct markers for tense, mood, and aspect. Old Telugu preserved the two-way masculine vs non-masculine gender...

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Gilbertese language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:35:28

(“the best”). Verbs do not conjugate according to person, number, tense, aspect or mood. These verbal categories are indicated by particles. Nonetheless...

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Toba Qom language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:25:57

aise, maj, etc. Tenses are reduced to the following: Simple present tense of the Indicative mood Past tense of the Indicative mood Future time Infinitive...

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Awa Pit language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:53:29

marked by a zero morpheme in a ‘pure structuralist form’, since tense markers happen after mood suffixes just before any person markers can appear. 1) ku-mtu-ata-w...

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Movima language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:00:06

common. Typical examples of inflection, such as number, case, tense, mood, and aspect, are not obligatorily marked in Movima. Many derivational processes...

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Komi-Permyak language
Rabu, 2026-01-14 04:09:50

verbs show tense (present, future, past), mood (indicative, imperative, evidential, optative, conditional and conjunctive), voice and aspect. The verbal...

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Hazaragi dialects
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:29:59

These typically attract stress. The tense, mood, and aspect systems are different from Western Persian. The basic tense system is threefold: present-future...

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Chichewa tones
Jumat, 2025-10-10 21:45:13

eating' Other tenses with this pattern are the subjunctives with -zí-, -dzá- and -ká-, various tenses with the aspect-marker -má-, and tenses with negative...

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Vedic Sanskrit grammar
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:15:33

conjugation in Sanskrit involves the interplay of number, person, voice, mood and tense, with the following variables: Further, participles are considered part...

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Yakkha language
Selasa, 2026-01-06 06:28:36

plural/nonsingular), negation, several categories in the domain of tense, aspect and mood. In transitive verbs, both actor and undergoer are coreferenced...

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Latin conjugation
Kamis, 2026-05-07 00:20:32

Semi-deponent verbs form their imperfective aspect tenses in the manner of ordinary active verbs; but their perfect tenses are built periphrastically like deponents...

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Old Spanish
Selasa, 2026-02-10 10:12:18

after the verb in any tense or mood unless a stressed word was before the verb.[example needed] The future and the conditional tenses were not yet fully...

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Harákmbut language
Kamis, 2026-05-07 05:43:09

(Agent or Object), and the mood. After the verbs stem, the suffixes denote the aspect, associated motion, the verbal plural, tense, and transitivity. On finite...

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Interlingua grammar
Minggu, 2026-04-12 19:27:00

For convenience' sake, this section often uses the term tense to also cover mood and aspect, though this is not strict grammatical terminology. The table...

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Romance verbs
Kamis, 2026-04-30 02:43:36

second-, and third-person), moods (indicative, conditional, subjunctive, and imperative), tenses (present, past, future), and aspects (imperfective and perfective)...

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