Ilokano verbs inflect for aspect, not for tense. In other words, the completion is encoded in the verb paradigm, not the time in which the action occurred.
Read more about this topic: Ilokano Verb
Famous quotes containing the word aspect:
“The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“Cleopatras nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“The subtlest and most vicious aspect of womens oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)