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;...

perfect subjunctive. Virgil has a short i for both tenses; Horace uses both forms for both tenses; Ovid uses both forms for the future perfect, but a...

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...

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

The sequence of tenses (known in Latin as consecutio temporum, and also known as agreement of tenses, succession of tenses and tense harmony) is a set...

Latin syntax is the part of Latin grammar that covers such matters as word order, the use of cases, tenses and moods, and the construction of simple and...

present tense is used similarly to that of English. What follows is an example of present indicative tense conjugation in Italian. The present tenses of Portuguese...

relative tense may be “relative to absolute” (secondary) if it relates the represented event to the primary tense. Read more about possible tenses in the...

strictly in Latin, they can be made passive if they are used impersonally, and the supine exists for such verbs. The six simple tenses of Latin are divided...

of Latin declensions the loss of the neuter gender the development of grammatical articles from Latin demonstratives the loss of certain Latin tenses and...

stems are needed to make the various tenses: dūc- in the three non-perfect tenses, dūx- in the three perfect tenses, and duct- in the perfect participle...

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...

Subjunctive mood tenses are divided into two groups, primary (present and perfect) and historic (imperfect and pluperfect). The historic tenses are used when...

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

open future conditions, it is usual in Latin to use one of the future tenses, when English has the present tense. Apart from the types mentioned below...

languages such as Latin and French is referred to as one of the tenses, although it actually encodes aspectual information in addition to tense (time reference)...

Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward. Vulgar...

(appo) in Logudorese Sardinian in present tenses. In Logudorese Sardinian, two -b-es lost in imperfect tenses. In French, the past participle eu including...

lliotibial band stretching. "Tensor fasciae latae" translates from Latin to English as "stretcher of the side band". "Tensor" is an agent noun that comes...

the simple tenses (Spanish: tiempos simples), but is named for the mood (conditional) that it expresses. In Ancient Greek, the perfect tense (Ancient Greek:...

karnā (to do). Imperatives in Hindi can be conjugated into two tenses, present and future tense. The conjugations are mentioned in the table below for the...

A hesternal tense (abbreviated HEST) is a past tense for the previous day. (Hesterno die is Latin for 'yesterday'.) Hesternal tense refers to an event...

In Latin, there are different modes of indicating past, present and future processes. There is the basic mode of free clauses and there are multiple dependent...

periphrastic suppletive forms for the loss of the corresponding classical Latin tenses. Periphrasis Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier, 2004...

The use of tense and aspectual forms in condition and conditional clauses follows special patterns; see conditional mood. For use of tenses in indirect...

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

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

of "habeo" as the basis of their future tenses (abandoning the Latin forms of the future tense). While in Latin "amare habeo" is the indirect discourse...

normally applied to English or Latin), or transgressives. Participles are often used to form certain grammatical tenses or grammatical aspects. The two...