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Tense: Tense

Values: Fut Imm Rec Rem

In Zaar, the tense features are expressed together with aspect, mood, person and number features in a word functioning as a preverbal clitic tagged as an AUX. Zaar has one fure tense and three past tenses, denoted Imm (immediate past), Rec (recent past), and Rem (remote past).

Fut: Future

Examples

Imm: immediate past

Zaar: The immediate past tense denotes a process that took place the same day as the speech time locus. The inflection follows the pattern “pronoun + yi

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Rec: recent past

Zaar: The recent past tense denotes a process that took place the day before the speech time locus. The inflection follows the pattern “pronoun + náː

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Rem: remote past

Zaar: The immediate past tense denotes a process that took place two days or more before the speech time locus. The inflection follows the pattern “pronoun + ta

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Tense in other languages: [ab] [abq] [aqz] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [ha] [hu] [hy] [it] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sah] [say] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]