future tense
71future — Mua, ka wā mahope. See tense. ♦ Near future, kēia mua iho. ♦ Distant future, kēia mua aku …
72tense — 1. noun /tɛns/ Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. The basic tenses in English are present, past and future. 2. adjective /tɛns/ a) Showing signs of stress or …
73future perfect — adjective Date: circa 1898 of, relating to, or constituting a verb tense that is traditionally formed in English with will have and shall have and that expresses completion of an action by a specified time that is yet to come • future perfect… …
74future perfect — noun Grammar a tense of verbs expressing expected completion in the future, in English exemplified by will have done …
75ˌfuture ˈperfect, the — noun [singular] linguistics the verb tense that is used for showing that an action will be finished at a particular time in the future, as in ‘He will have finished the work by Friday …
76Grammatical tense — is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.Tense is one of at least five qualities, along with mood, voice, aspect, and person, which verb forms may express.Tenses… …
77Present tense — For other uses, see Present tense (disambiguation). The present tense (abbreviated pres or prs) is a grammatical tense that locates a situation or event in present time.[1] This linguistic definition refers to a concept that indicates a feature… …
78Relative and absolute tense — Grammatical tenses are deictic; the center of deixis may be either the moment of discourse or narration (a so called absolute tense) or the moment under discussion (a so called relative tense). English uses absolute tense. For example, if John… …
79Going-to future — is a term used to describe an English sentence structure referring to the future, making use of the verb phrase to be going to . Most other languages use the same sort of structure to form a future tense.OriginThe going to future originated by… …
80Days of Future Past — This article is about the comics storyline. For the episode of the animated series, see Days of Future Past (X Men). Not to be confused with Days of Future Passed, the Moody Blues album. Days of Future Past Cover of X Men vol. 1, 141 (Jan,… …
