Crastinal tense

A crastinal tense (abbreviated cras) is a future tense applied to a following or subsequent day. (Crāstinō diē is the Latin for 'tomorrow'.)¹

Crastinal tense refers to an event which will occur tomorrow (in an absolute tense system) or the following day (in a relative tense system). A post-crastinal tense indicates some time after tomorrow or the following day.

Crastinal future (as opposed to a more generic near future) is uncommon, but is found in several Bantu and related languages, such as Luganda² and Chichewa.³

References

Livy, bks 3 & 10; Apuleius, 1.
Kamoga & Stevick (1968), Luganda Basic Course, p.209.
Maxson, n. (2011), Chichewa for English Speakers, p.41.

External links

The dictionary definition of crastinal at Wiktionary

[1] Livy, bks 3 & 10; Apuleius, 1.

[2] Kamoga & Stevick (1968), Luganda Basic Course, p.209.

[3] Maxson, n. (2011), Chichewa for English Speakers, p.41.

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