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.
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Famous quotes containing the word aspect:
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women’s 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)
“As regards the celebrated “struggle for life,” it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality—where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)