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2. Ancient Greek verbs - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Ancient Greek verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons (first, second and third) and three numbers (singular, dual and plural). In the indicative mood there are seven tenses: present, imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past ...

3. Pluperfect - Wikipedia

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   The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving an action from an antecedent point in time. Examples in English are: "we had arrived " before the game began; "they had been writing " when the bell rang.

4. Latin tenses - Wikipedia

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   The main Latin tenses can be divided into two groups: the present system (also known as infectum tenses), consisting of the present, future, and imperfect; and the perfect system (also known as perfectum tenses), consisting of the perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect. [1][2][3][4] To these six main tenses can be added various periphrastic or ...

5. Optative (Ancient Greek) - Wikipedia

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   The optative mood (/ ˈɒptətɪv / or / ɒpˈteɪtɪv /; [1] Ancient Greek [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, " [inflection] for wishing", [2] Latin optātīvus [modus] " [mode] for wishing") [3] is a grammatical mood of the Ancient Greek verb, named for its use as a way to express wishes. The optative mood in Greek is ...

6. Present perfect - Wikipedia

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   The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences. [1] The term is used particularly in the context of English grammar to refer to forms like "I have finished". The forms are present because they use the present tense of the auxiliary verb ...

7. Future perfect - Wikipedia

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   The future perfect is a verb form or construction used to describe an event that is expected or planned to happen before a time of reference in the future, such as will have finished in the English sentence "I will have finished by tomorrow." It is a grammatical combination of the future tense, or other marking of future time, and the perfect ...