Tense: tense
| Values: | Past | Fut |
Tense is a feature of function words.
Past: past
Past is a feature of a particle tùn which have the aux relation with its head. It is always used with other auxiliaries.
Example
- Fàntá tùn bɛ́ dɔ́kili dá. “Fanta was singing”.
Fut: future
Future can be expressed by two auxiliaries: nà and bɛ́nà, which are grammaticalized recently from a verb nà ‘to come’. Sometimes, bɛ́nà is written with a space between bɛ́ and nà. In this case, a relation [fixed] (bm-dep/fixed).
Example
- Fàntá bɛ́nà dɔ́kili dá “Fàntá will sing”.
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]