Nonpresent tense
Grammatical tense in some languages
A nonpresent tense (abbreviated NPRS) is a grammatical tense that distinguishes a verbal action as taking place in times past or future, as opposed to present tense.
The constructed language Ithkuil has such a tense (RTI (Relative Timeline Indicator), degree 5, suffix -lt).[1][2]
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Grammatical tenses
- Future
- Crastinal
- Going-to
- Near
- Nonfuture
- Nonpast
- Nonpresent
- Present
- Hodiernal
- Past
- Hesternal
- Present perfect
- Pluperfect
- Future perfect
- Future in the past / Future perfect in the past
- Fake
- Relative and absolute
- Periodic tense
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