Tense: tense
Description
Tense feature matches the inflectional endings in verbs. Sometimes the suffix
for tense-aspect-mood can be one together, in these cases all features can be
used. Tense is a feature that specifies the time when the action took / takes
/ will take place, in relation to the current moment or to another action in
the utterance. In Uralic grammars there have been various practices in
refering to present/future tense and past/preterite tense, in Universal
dependencies we use Pres for common non-past and Past for common past,
unless language has more complex tense system.
Pres: Present tense
Present tense is used for events happening in the current time. In many Uralic languages used in future constructions as well.
Present examples
- [fi] juoksen “I eat”, tapamme “we kill”
Past: Past or preterite tense
Past tense is used for events happening in the passed time.
Present examples
- [fi] juoksin “I ran”, tapoimme “we killed”
Tense in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]