Time Point / Time Span
Time adverbial
Temporal phrase
When does it happen?
core
basic
Context
معنا
The time location of an event or state: a point, period, date, moment, duration, or time frame.
چطور آن را تشخیص دهید
Find words that place the event on a timeline.
نمونهها
واژهها
today|yesterday|now|tomorrow|week|year
عبارتها
last night|in two hours|for three days
جمله
We met yesterday.
Visual guide
Basic shape
Timeline
past ─ yesterday ─ now ─ tomorrow
▲
We met
Span: for three days
Frame: last night
Compare shape
Time can be a: POINT: yesterday / now SPAN: for three days OFFSET: in two hours FRAME: last night Forms may be adverb, case, preposition, particle, tense.
نمای زبان
در زبان شما
Persian (Farsi, standard Iranian)
میزان حضور
strong
اهمیت
Time points and spans are usually expressed with adverbs or prepositional phrases.
فردا میآیم.
tomorrow I-come.
در زبان در حال یادگیری
Arabic (Modern Standard)
میزان حضور
strong
دشواری
Time can be stated with adverbs, prepositional phrases, or inferred from verb form and context.
سأزورك غدًا.
I will visit you tomorrow.
چالش رایج زبانآموزان
Learners may place time phrases unnaturally or miss accusative adverbial forms.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.