KNF:Syntax:Tenses
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This page is about Tenses of Kиipƒi language. It's subpage of syntax. Here's some descriptions for constructions:
Infinitive - Past - Future - Perfect - By Person Conjugated
If English tenses are connected to Simple Tenses of Kиipƒi, it would look like this:
| Past | Present | Future | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | Perfect/Past | Present | Future |
| Continuous | Perfect | Present | Future |
| Perfect | Perfect | Perfect | Future |
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[edit] Simple tenses
These tenses are used in common speech. They doesn't require any auxiliary verbs. There's just 4:
[edit] Present
Present Simple Tense is used for referring present events.
Construction: S+O+V(Inf,BPC)
[edit] Future
Future Simple Tense is used for referring planned events, and events that will happen.
Construction: S+O+V(Fut,BPC)
[edit] Perfect
Perfect Simple Tense is used for completed past events, unrepeated.
Construction: S+O+V(Per,BPC)
[edit] Past
Past Simple Tense is used for incompleted past events OR past events that started repeating from somewhere in past(like in He was playing football since age of 2(and he still does it)).
Construction: S+O+V(Pas,BPC)
[edit] Composed Tenses
They're advanced versions of Simple Tenses, and usually display complicated time relations of events. They're more official also. In common speech, simple versions of these tenses are used, Composed Tenses can be also used to emphasis time relation fact.
If some events(because it's possible to construct so sentences for every English tense that it will have no equivalent in Composed Tenses) from English tenses are connected to Composed Tenses of Kиipƒi, it would look like this:
| Past | Present | Future | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | Past Progressive | Perfect Cycle(more often) | Future Progressive/Future Perfect |
| Continuous | Past Progressive | Present Progressive | Future Progressive/Future Perfect |
[edit] Perfect Cycle
Perfect Cycle Composed Tense is used for displaying perfect events that are repeated, they're started and finished in cycles, this tense does not include past.
Construction: S+O+sigfo(Per,BPC)+V(Inf)
Simple Version: Past Simple Tense
[edit] Future Perfect
Future Perfect Composed Tense is used for displaying events that will be finished in future.
Construction: S+O+sigfo(Fut,BPC)+V(Per)
Simple Version: Future Simple Tense
[edit] Present Progressive
Present Progressive Composed Tense is used for displaying present events that are going to be completed.
Construction: S+O+sigfo(Inf,BPC)+V(Inf)
Simple Version: Present Simple Tense
[edit] Past Progressive
Past Progressive Composed Tense is used for displaying past events that were going to be completed in past.
Construction: S+O+sigfo(Inf,BPC)+V(Pas)
Simple Version: Past Simple Tense
[edit] Future Progressive
Future Progressive Composed Tense is used for displaying events that will start being completed in future.
Construction: S+O+sigfo(Fut,BPC)+V(Fut)
Simple Version:
