There are """languages""" with more than 4 tenses

>there are """languages""" with more than 4 tenses

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Don't they all

Pretérito Perfeito, Pretérito Imperfeito, Pretérito Mais-que-perfeito, Futuro, Futuro do Pretérito, Presente
All of that in the Indicativo Mood while there is still the Subjuntivo, Imperativo and Condicional mood

> there are """""""""languages"""""""""" that have less than 20 tenses, 4 conjugations + irregular conjucations, passive, active and transitive forms

Plusquamperfekt, Perfekt, Imperfekt, Präsens, Futur I, Futur II

>There are """"languages"""" that have 4 or less tenses

A case system doesn't sound so bad now that I think about it.

>there are languages with more than 3 vowels
Absolutely harambe

You have no idea what you are talking about, right?

If you need anything more than Past, Present, Future, Imperative, and Infinitive you are a shit language

>his language doesn't have perfect tenses
wew

>another romance shitter replies
Just what I expected. One day you'll have to admit something got fucked up between Latin's 6 tenses and what you ended up with today.

I know, right?
Past, Present and Future are enough

Try French dude, it will fuck up your mind just knowing all our possible tenses

i lyk spen yuo lyk spen?

not
I het spen

You are probably too dumb to realise english tenses are at least as hard to use as romance tenses.
ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/tenses

italy doesn't have any of that

>limiting yourself to 4 tenses
Top pleb. How is anyone supposed to know when the fuck you're talking about?

you forgot Konjunktiv I & II

>his language doesn't have at least 24 cases

I seriously hope you guys don't do this

even though they're technically moods and not tenses I feel like they should be included.

>his language has almost no prepositions because everything is expressed through case endings

>Plusquamperfekt

Someone got cucked.

>language without several moods

Dutch has 8:

>onvoltooid tegenwoordige tijd
>onvoltooid verleden tijd
>voltooid tegenwoordige tijd
>voltooid verleden tijd
>onvoltooid tegenwoordige toekomende tijd
>voltooid tegenwoordige toekomende tijd
>onvoltooid verleden toekomende tijd
>voltooid verleden toekomende tijd

Like German, all can be either terminatief or duratief.

Most of them are logical and have analogues in English. The weirder ones are confined to fancy texts now, thank g*d

hello

condicional isn't part of indicativo? wtf i hate portuguese now

It's the same in French

Do you put verbs in future tense by taking the infinitive and putting the future form of быть in front of it? Is it that simple?

Yes, but only for imperfect verbs.

Can you explain imperfect vs perfect?

Why don't you just use google for that? It's not like it's a very specific question.

his boihole isn't tense

>Polish
>7 cases
>5 grammatical genders
>2 number classes
>4 tenses
>aspect system
>4 moods
>4 grammatical voices
>5 participle types
>11 conjugation patterns
How can other languages even compete?

Sanskrit?

BURNED

>only 5 genders
Triggered.jpg

Wait does that mean I can come to Finland and have sexy time with your boihole?

Actually Slavic is pretty close to Sanskrit.
Here's nice comparison of some Russian and Sanskrit words:

academia.edu/8217225/РУССКО-САНСКРИТСКИЙ_СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ_СЛОВАРЬ_RUSSIAN_-_SANSKRIT_COMPARATIVE_DICTIONARY_DEMONSTRATION_SAMPLE_

Becuase they belongs to the same language family: indo-european. Sanskrit is arguably more complicated than Classical Greek and Latin. These three deserved to be dead tho. Grammar are nightmares.

I can express all that with 3 tenses. We used to have four but the fourth one proved useless.
Something like genders, cases and the dual number would be far more useful desu

step it up

Présent
Passé simple
Passé compose
Passé antérieur
Imparfait
Futur simple
Plus que parfait
Futur Anteriéur
Subjonctif présent
Subjonctif passé
Subjonctif imparfait
Subjonctif perfect
Conditional present
Conditional passé 1
Conditional passé 2

Grammar is a nightmare
Grammar is full of nightmares
Grammars are a nightmare

Not grammar are nightmares

:(

That's a lot of pizza even for an american.

Imperative and Infinitive are not tenses, silly Jew.
And how do you distinguish between things that have happened things that have been happening since the past and are still continuing, or things that will happen and things that will have happened and be completed int he future?

>there are languages with more than 5 vowel phonemes

It would be a hassle to write the schwa sound and the variations of E and O but there is no excuse to not using those in speech.

>schwa
just an unstressed allophone of a, e, i and o desu

>Indicativo:
Presente
Pretérito Perfeito
Pretérito Imperfeito
Pretérito Mais-que-perfeito
Futuro
>Conjuntivo:
Presente
Pretérito Perfeito
Futuro
>Condicional:
Presente
>Imperativo
Afirmativo
Negativo
>Gerúndio
>Particípio Passado

And then you have the Compound (ter/ir ) cases, Pronominal (-me, -te, -se, -nos, -vos, lhe, lhes) cases and Article (-o, -a, -os, -as) cases in all of those, although those have only small, rule-generated changes.

6 voices for each.

I think we have 16, but a couple are interchangeable (although when you switch you can tell something is wrong, even if you can't pinpoint what)

Past Present Future. No auxiliaries.
Nice and simple.

Half vowel is still a vowel

Good answer

>his still communicates with words
We still pretend as to not scare foreigners.
You lads don't know what you're missing.

Inb4 kamelåså

they have 4 stomachs

What do you need more than 3 tenses for

T'as oublié les impératif et gérondif

Which other languages uses subjonctive besides us ?

Those aren't tenses buddy

Imperative is an aspect ( I think ) and gerund is a conjugation

when everyone talks through brainwaves, speech naturally devolves into meaningless guttural sounds

I know they arent tenses, they both are moods. But they have a few tenses linked to them.

speng ood i lik spine

German I think

Latin of course

English kind of does

Dutch used to have it

>Grammar are nightmares.
your telling me, amigo

Polish is even harder than Russian, isn't it?

>There are "languages" with fewer than 90 cases.

grammatical genders
Go back to Tumblr. :P

A bunch of other Indo-European languages (Albanian, Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Tocharian...), and some Semitic languages (Arabic, Akkadian).

>5 grammatical genders
nah, 3 genders same as russian, just different endings for person/animate/inamite

>mine has exactly 4 tenses

Vietnamese has 9 vowels, plus dipthrongs and tripthrongs.

Futr prvi, futur drugi, prezent, perfekt, aorist, imperfekt, pluskvamperfekt.
Imperativ, kondicional sadašnji, kondicional prošli.

>4 tenses
Only 4? Needs at least 7. How can you even use your language without tenses?

>Nouns with more than 1 gender
>Verbs with more than 1 tense
>Verbs that needs to be spelt differently according to subject
>Obliges the use of verb "to be"
>Confusing rules to make a word plural

>Classical Chinese
>No gender
>No tense distinctions to speak of
>No verb conjugations
>There is an equivalent of "to be", but it's not usually used
>No singular-plural distinction whatsoever (not even the pronouns: me and us are not distinguished, nor are him/her and them)
sounds like I found the perfect language for u, user