Time Direction / Tense
Is it in the past, present, or future?
अर्थ
The event's direction relative to the speaker's 'now': before, at, after, or relative to another reference time.
इसे कैसे पहचानें
Ask whether the event is earlier, now, later, or relative to another event.
उदाहरण
past|present|future|will|did
went yesterday|will go tomorrow|is here now
She will call tomorrow.
Visual guide
Speaker's NOW
│
PAST ◄── now ──► FUTURE
went is will go
Time direction = event's side
of now or another reference.
B02 vs B01: She will call tomorrow. will call → FUTURE side of now tomorrow → WHEN on timeline Languages may mark B02 on verb, with particle, time word, context.
भाषा व्यू
आपकी भाषा में
Time direction is shown by verb forms and auxiliaries, but aspect is often just as important as tense.
वह दिल्ली गया था।
He Delhi gone was.
सीखी जा रही भाषा में
MSA uses perfect/imperfect forms plus particles and context; it is not a simple European tense system.
كتبَ الرسالةَ وسيكتبُ الردَّ.
He wrote the letter and will write the reply.
Learners may map Arabic forms too directly to past/present/future.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.