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It's very funny as a Spaniard since "verbal tense" in Spanish is literally "verbal time" (tiempo(s) verbal), so it's unequivocally not able to describe things t
by franciscop 2y ago
It's very funny as a Spaniard since "verbal tense" in Spanish is literally "verbal time" (tiempo(s) verbal), so it's unequivocally not able to describe things that are not temporal:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiempo_verbal https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiempo_verbal
Even more interestingly, that article links in English to the TAM (Tense-Aspect-Mood):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tense%E2%80%93aspect%E2%80%93mood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tense%E2%80%93aspect%E2%80%93m...
- rvense 2y agoEnglish "Tense" is also derived from "tempus"!
- the_gipsy 2y ago> unequivocally not able to describe things that are not temporal I don't think you can take it that literally. The are conditional and subjective verb forms: "Comería cuando llegaras".
- anticensor 2y agoSame in Turkish, we call them "eylemin zamanları" which stands for "times of verbs".