Re: THEORY: Tenses (was: Re: THEORY: ... Auxiliaries...)
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 12, 2005, 1:50 |
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In a message dated 7/10/2005 5:08:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
salut_vous_autre@H... writes:
>But except latin and romance languages, are there languages that
really have
>a grammatical futur?
Swahili forms the future tense by infixing -ta- between the personal
pronoun prefix and the verb:
nitasoma - I shall read
utasema - you shall say
atapenda - he/she shall love
etc.
Charlie
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