A nonfuture tense (
abbreviated
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) is a
grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a grammatical category, category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their grammatical conjugation, conjugation patterns.
The main tenses found ...
that distinguishes a verbal action as having taken place in the past or the present, as opposed to the
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 ...
. Nonfuture tense is found in languages such as
Rukai,
Greenlandic,
Quechua,
Yabem and
Nivkh
Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to:
* Nivkh people (''Nivkhs'') or Gilyak people (''Gilyaks'')
* Nivkh languages or Gilyak languages
* Gilyak class gunboat, ''Gilyak'' class gunboat, such as the Russian gunboat Korietz#Second gunboat, second R ...
.
[(Li 1996, 1997)]
References
Grammatical tenses
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