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A nonpresent tense (abbreviated nprs) is a grammatical tense that distinguishes a verbal action as taking place in times past or future, as opposed to present tense.

The constructed language Ithkuil has such a tense (RTI (Relative Timeline Indicator), degree 5, suffix -lt).^[1]^[2]

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[1] DESIGN FOR THE NEW REVISION OF ITHKUIL (Version 0.19, April 8, 2021) by JQ

[2] VXCS AFFIXES FOR ITHKUIL IV version 0.7.5 (April 8, 2021) by JQ

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v t e Grammatical tenses
Future Crastinal Going-to Near Nonfuture Nonpast Nonpresent Present Hodiernal Past Hesternal
Present perfect Pluperfect Future perfect Future in the past / Future perfect in the past
Fake Relative and absolute Periodic tense

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