tenses

For example: some African languages don't have temporal tenses --- they don't distinguish between past, present and future.

Chinese does not use formal tenses but they add words to tell time when it's useful to.

The representation makes no assumption of SVO order, the grammatical category of numbers, and what cases and tenses are available.

Instead of using tenses, you put a phrase expressing time at the beginning of a clause, a feature borrowed from Chinese.

Brazilian Portuguese is another case of diglossia: the written language has multiple verb tenses and conjugations that aren't used in spoken language, for example.

When the avatar gets hit by a weapon, the user's body sweats and tenses up, believing it was just hit by an actual weapon.

If i don't find that mismatch, my mind sort of tenses up.

In an age appropriate manner and wording (vocab, tenses, allusions to other works, etc) Hatchet explore what it takes to mentally be an adult.

How did the lojbanists derive their tenses / spatiotemporal prepositions / etc.?

We Polish people have a hard language It goes both ways; for example, how many Poles have well and truly mastered all of English's tenses?

There are no tenses in Mandarin for example.

Anwar al-Alwaki suggests you check your tenses.

"Since" in English generally refers to things that happened in perfect tenses (as opposed to e.g.

Both "sped things" and "speeds things" are both legal English and both mean similar things (although as another commenter correctly notes, the tenses are subtly different).

Generally I don't give much credence to the idea of semantic primes (at all, not just in some pragmatic sense) but for stuff like spatial relationships + tenses (+ aspect, mood, etc.) it'd seem not an impossible undertaking (do enough reading in linguistic typology and you start seeing enough "repeats" to think such an enumeration might be possible).