Tense: tense
| Values: | Past | Pres | Prosp |
In Naija, Tense is a feature of auxiliaries and verbs which specifies the time when the action took / takes / will take place, in relation to another process or the utterance itself.
There are three values for this feature :
- Past : past
- Pres : present
- Prosp : prospective
Past: past
The past tense is ued to indicate that the process is situated in the past in relation to another process or the utterance itself.
Example
- I bin go school “I went to school”
Pres: present
The present tense is used to situate the process in present time.
Example
- dat means you be student “That means you are a student”
Prosp: prospective
The prospective tense is used to indicate that the process has not yet taken place. It is situated in the future in relation to another process or the utterance itself.
Example
- hope still dey sey dem go born anoda pikin “there is hope that they would have givern birth to another child”
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] [ps] [qpm] [ru] [sah] [say] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]