Chapter 5
Tense, aspect and mood
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.2Time and tense
- 5.2.1Infinitive
- 5.2.2Non-future
- 5.2.2.1Referring to present time
- 5.2.2.2Present habitual
- 5.2.2.3Referring to past time
- 5.2.3Future
- 5.2.4Archaic present
- 5.3Aspect
- 5.3.1Imperfective
- 5.3.1.1Present progressive
- 5.3.1.2Past progressive (imperfective-perfective)
- 5.3.1.3Future progressive
- 5.3.2Past relevant to present
- 5.3.3Perfective
- 5.3.3.1Present perfect
- 5.3.3.2Past perfect
- 5.3.3.3Future perfect
- 5.3.3.4Past habitual
- 5.3.4Second perfective (pluperfect)
- 5.3.5Prospective
- 5.3.6Inceptive
- 5.3.7Completive
- 5.4Mood
- 5.4.1Imperative
- 5.4.2Hortative
- 5.4.3Desiderative/subjunctive
- 5.4.4Permissive
- 5.4.5Conditional
- 5.5Summary
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Notes