Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The three tenses

Hmm..What do we call tense in our language? literally time? we will reuse the indian term 'Kal' ...(கால் )
(काल )

past tense -kAl gatam                          -काल गतम - கால் கதம் 
Present tense -kAl etam                       -काल इतम - கால் இதம் 
Future tense -kAl Bavam or Bhavam    -काल भवं  - கால் ப4வம் 

symbol for time would be a vertical half stroke inside a circle.(literally a clock showing 12 noon)

A dot above any symbol would represent the past tense of it. A dot below, future tense of it. (which pictorially means that past tense is beyond our head and cannot be controlled ; future is still beneath our feet so we have a little control over it. Following figure shows the pictorial representation of three tenses.)


We would define continuous and perfect tenses a little later. now this post is gatam gatam :P




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