A crastinal tense (
abbreviated
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) is a
future tense
In grammar, a future tense ( abbreviated ) is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. An example of a future tense form is the French ''achètera'', mea ...
applied to a following or subsequent day. (''Crāstinō diē'' is the
Latin
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for 'tomorrow'.)
Crastinal tense refers to an event which will occur tomorrow (in an absolute tense system) or the following day (in a
relative tense system). A post-crastinal tense indicates some time after tomorrow or the following day.
Crastinal future (as opposed to a more generic
near future) is uncommon, but is found in several Bantu and related languages, such as
Luganda
Ganda or Luganda ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Ganda people, Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, includ ...
and
Chichewa.
[Maxson, n. (2011), ''Chichewa for English Speakers'', p.41.]
References
Grammatical tenses
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