It is used with the auxiliary verb έχω (to have) to form the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses.

More grammar is covered, including past and future tenses, and imperative forms.

It is broadly equivalent to the present and future tenses of English, and is sometimes called the "non-past tense".

Nafaanra has past, recent past, and future tenses and continuative aspect.

To give the same idea in the past or future tenses, a copulative verb must be used.

There are three future tenses.

If, formally, past and future tenses keep interrupting the story's continuing narrative, they do so because, for Mr. Erickson, time must exist.

There are two past and two future tenses.

They are in the present, perfect, future, and future perfect tenses.

Before verb roots, it is used for the present and future tenses.