Crastinal Tense

A crastinal tense (abbreviated CRAS) is a future tense applied to a following or subsequent day. (Crāstinum is Latin for morrow.)

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 Hunde and Bamum.


Grammatical tenses
  • Future (Crastinal)
  • Nonfuture
  • Present (Hodiernal)
  • Past (Hesternal)
  • Future perfect
  • Present perfect
  • Pluperfect
  • Relative and absolute


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