Tenses

//tɛnsɪz//

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Tagalog has no verbal tenses, but Spanish does. Tagalog, though, has verbal aspects.

Only when it comes to the tenses and the phrasal verbs is English grammar more difficult than German.

Only when it comes to tenses and phrasal verbs is English grammar more difficult than German.

Does Berber have tenses?

Are there verbal tenses in Berber?

Why are future tenses a lot easier to learn than present and past tenses?

I don't see the point of learning the present perfect, pluperfect, conditional perfect, and future perfect tenses separately if they're all the exact same.

I think Japanese and English language tenses differ.

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.

Japanese, Tagalog, and Chinese have no verbal tenses.

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