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
- dzàŋ làːdì má ɬǐː Kində báː ?// “On Tuesday, we’ll go to Kində no?”
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”
Examples
- kə yél yáːwón ɗan mìyǎː fúː =tə̀ ɗan míyàː ŋáːs =tə ɣáyíː kíː yèl láː áyǎː fi wuriː ?// “You see today as we told him, as I teased him, did you see what he did?”
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”
Examples
- tòː yâːn mənáːyáː wu tu &// “Well that’s why yesterday I said…”
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”
Examples
- káy káː yel ɗan mətá ɬə á Kullây kwǎː mətá ɲol teː Zwàl // “Well you see as I went to see Kulla, see, I followed Zwal way.
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]