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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by franciscop on Saturday October 12, 2024 @09:22PM (#41824363)
It's very funny as a Spaniard since "verbal tense" in Spanish is literally "verbal time" (tiempo(s) verbal), so it's unequivocally not able to describe things that are not temporal:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiempo_verbal

Even more interestingly, that article links in English to the TAM (Tense-Aspect-Mood):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tense%E2%80%93aspect%E2%80%93m...

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by rvense on Sunday October 13, 2024 @02:50AM (#41825765)
English "Tense" is also derived from "tempus"!
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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by the_gipsy on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:00AM (#41826331)
> unequivocally not able to describe things that are not temporal

I don't think you can take it that literally. The are conditional and subjective verb forms:

"Comería cuando llegaras".

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by anticensor on Sunday October 13, 2024 @02:33PM (#41830341)
Same in Turkish, we call them "eylemin zamanları" which stands for "times of verbs".
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