Non-past

Many textbooks on Japanese claim that the language has verbal tenses, namely, the past and the non-past, but many academics proclaim that Japanese has really verbal aspects, not tenses, namely the perfective and imperfective aspects. In this way, Tagalog is more like Japanese, with its complete, progressive, and contemplative as main aspects.

In the phrases ‘I am running tomorrow’ and ‘I am running now,’ the main verb is in the non-past tense.