Latin tenses with modality information

for it should be quarried two years in advance' For gerundive infinitive tenses see #Gerundive infinitives below. The present subjunctive can express a...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. Verbs have tenses: present, to indicate...

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...

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...

—— (1993) Mathematics of Modality, CSLI Lecture Notes No. 43. University of Chicago Press. —— (2006) "Mathematical Modal Logic: a View of its Evolution"...

Judeo-Spanish, the Latin pluperfect forms with little alteration have been preserved (e.g. final /m/ and /t/ are dropped) to express this tense (pluskuamperfekto)...

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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...

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...

More precise tenses are available to express certain temporal nuances, but both of the most common tenses (present tense and perfect tense) can often be...

(1993). A Practical English Grammar. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-562053-5. Comrie, Bernard, Tense, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985. Greek tenses...

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...

subjunctive simple tenses: present, imperfect, and future, but only the former two are still in active use. At least three subjunctive compound tenses exist: present...

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...

the other tenses; this behaviour is similarly featured in the verbs ending in -trarre, -porre and -durre, derived respectively from the Latin TRAHĔRE (to...

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

additional category. The eight simple forms can also be categorized into four tenses (future, present, past, and future-of-the-past), or into two aspects (perfective...

politeness. There are fewer tenses in Persian than in English. There are about ten tenses in all. The greatest variety is shown in tenses referring to past events...