User:Robbiemuffin/The tenses/The Absolute-Relative tenses
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* note there is no future in the future tense. That is because no natural language has one. Internet memes die hard.
Future Perfect
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The future perfect tense is used to describe an event that has not yet happened but which is expected or planned to happen before another stated occurrence.
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Past Perfect
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The pluperfect tense (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English, is a perfective tense that exists in most Indo-European languages, used to refer to an event that has completed before another past action.
Language with a Past Perfect (by inflection) Galician |
Future in the Past
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Refers to a time located in the future, relative to a contextually determined temporal reference point that itself must be located in the past relative to the moment of utterance.
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Future Perfect in the Past
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Expresses a past action which is future with respect to a past action which itself is prior to another past action. An example might help: John left for the front; by the time he should return, the field would have been burnt to stubble.
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