century A.D.), just as with Cicero, the perfect indicative with fuī is only very rarely used compared with the other double tenses. An example is the following:...

patterns. The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and...

on grammatical tense. In indicative clauses, Latin has three primary tenses and three series of secondary tenses. The primary tenses are the future agam...

The main Latin tenses can be divided into two groups: the present system (also known as infectum tenses), consisting of the present, future, and imperfect;...

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is an important group of grammatical categories...

pronounced with a long i, in the same way as in the perfect subjunctive. Virgil has a short i for both tenses; Horace uses both forms for both tenses; Ovid...

distances ahead, means that the speaker may refer to future events with the modality either of probability (what the speaker expects to happen) or intent...

described as representing certain verb tenses or aspects (in English language teaching they are often simply called tenses). For the usage of these forms, see...

verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. They can most easily be...

derives from the Latin praeteritum (the perfective participle of praetereo), meaning "passed by" or "past." In Latin, the perfect tense most commonly functions...

verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. In English, three tenses exist: present, to...

regions. Like other Bantu languages it has a wide range of tenses. In terms of time, Chichewa tenses can be divided into present, recent past, remote past...

construction in Dutch involves the past tense of the verb zullen, the auxiliary of the future tenses, cognate with English 'shall'. Ik zou zingen 'I would...

past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving an action from an antecedent point in time. Examples in English...

Greek From SIL International: Deontic modality Volitive modality: imprecative mood, optative mood Directive modality: deliberative mood, imperative mood...

grammatical tense (such as time reference) and grammatical aspect. The Greek perfect tense is contrasted with the aorist and the imperfect tenses and specifically...

"preterite" tense, either -t- or -d-. In Proto-Germanic, such verbs had no ablaut—that is, all forms of all tenses were formed from the same stem, with no vowel...

hodiernal tense (abbreviated HOD) is a grammatical tense for the current day. (Hodie or hodierno die is Latin for 'today'.) Hodiernal tenses refer to events...

particular tense–aspect–mood combinations such as "present progressive" and "conditional perfect" are often referred to simply as "tenses". Verb tenses are inflectional...

recent past from remote past with separate tenses. There may be more than two distinctions. In some languages, certain past tenses can carry an implication...

forms (tenses) include 8 simple tenses and 8 compound tenses. The compound tenses are formed with the auxiliary verb haber plus the past participle. Verbs...

has the same subjunctive tenses as German (described above), though they are rare in contemporary speech. The same two tenses as in German are sometimes...

necessary. Other systems of modal logic have been formulated, in part because S5 does not describe every kind of modality of interest. Sequent calculi...

conflated with the marking of tense and mood (see tense–aspect–mood). Aspectual distinctions may be restricted to certain tenses: in Latin and the Romance...

forms for present, aorist, and perfect tenses for the active, middle, and passive voices. Within these tenses, forms exist for second and third persons...

the other tenses; this behaviour is similarly featured in the verbs ending in -trarre, -porre and -durre, derived respectively from the Latin trahere[citation...

never used to form tenses. Past participles are used as qualifiers for nouns: "la table cassée" (the broken table); to form compound tenses such as the perfect...

The Portuguese personal infinitive has no proper tenses, only aspects (imperfect and perfect), but tenses can be expressed using periphrastic structures...

si. The use of tenses is quite similar to English: In implicative conditional sentences, the present tense (or other appropriate tense, mood, etc.) is...

Moods and Tenses, without one of the following principal Verbs have and be. The first serves to conjugate the rest, by supplying the compound tenses of all...