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Tense: tense

Values: Fut Pred

In Hausa, tense is a feature of the Auxiliary.

Tense is a feature that specifies the time when the action took / takes / will take place, in relation to a reference point.

Fut: future tense

The default future tense denotes actions that will happen after the moment of producing the sentence, or the reference point of the text.

Examples

Pred: predictive tense

In comparison to the default future tense, the predictive future adds an extra illocutionary force on the part of the speaker concerning the reality of the process.

Examples


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]