Verb Tenses and Negation

Verb tenses in Celestial are fairly straightforward, though there are still several tenses that do not exist in English. Verb negation is also straightforward, though once again different from English.

Time

Past: Actions that take place before the current time.

Present: Actions that are currently taking place.

Future: Actions that take place sometime after the current time.

Eternal/Infinite: Actions that have always taken, are always taking, or will always take place.

Aspects

Simple: The most straightforward version of a verb, where the action is one complete action.

Distant: The action took place a long time ago.

Progressive: The action is currently progressing; this is the tense for verbs in English that end in -ing such as "going" and "doing".

Perfect: The action has finished; it occurred some time in the past. This tense now focuses on the resulting state of the action.

Subjunctive: This is for an action one wishes/wished or desires/desired to happen in some way. If you'd rather play football instead of doing paperwork, this is the aspect to talk about said desire.

Imperative: Someone or something is compelling the verb's subject to do the action. If your boss tells you to have the paperwork in by Monday, he could use the imperative tense to ask you to.

Negation

This is the equivalent to using "don't", "won't", or similar verb prefixes in English. Instead of using something like that, Celestial has its own prefix (an- an-) to directly negate verbs. (If negating verbs beginning with Nn, ani- ani- is used instead.)