Compound tenses
In addition to normal and GnIt tenses, Wistrish has compound tense-aspects, formed through coordinating the main verb (usually its participle) with an auxilliary. Wistrish compound tense-aspects are:
- Perfective retrospective (past participle + π πΉππ°π½) marks an action that precedes some point in time. Strictly used with perfectives (any of them) and roughly translates to English perfect tenses.
- Imperfective retrospective (past participle + π·π°π±π°π½) too marks an action that precedes some point in time, but used for imperfective forms.
- Perfective prospective (present participle + π πΉππ°π½) marks an action that will occur after some point in time. Strictly used with perfectives and has an opposite meaning to the retrospective.
- Imperfective prospective (present participle + π·π°π±π°π½) too action that will occur after some point in time, but used for imperfective forms.
- Discontinuous (present participle + π πΉππ°π½) marks an imperfective action that ceased by some point. π πΉππ°π½ marks the point in time when the action was happening, therefore it is often compounded with retrospectives.
In all above examples and unlike some similar languages, participle agrees in case, number and gender with the sentence subject. π πΉππ°π½ also becomes π π°πΉππΈπ°π½ in future contexts.
- Near future (all. present participle + π π°πΉππΈπ°π½) translates into English as "going to". Unlike the above tense-aspects, in which present participle agrees with the subject, near future present participle does not and strictly uses the allative case.