Compound tenses
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Simple future
Just add "beeş" before the simple present verb and there you have it; the simple future:
‘We buy a car’
‘We will soon buy a car’
Distant Future
Add "taú" before the simple present:
‘We travel to Sweden’
‘We will eventually travel to Sweden (at some point in the future)’
Conditional and Emphatic
Before the past simple, the prepositional pronoun "Raa" signifies the conditional present perfect.
‘If you had studied harder, you would have passed [the exam]’
Before the simple present, it signifies either assertion or "would + bare infinitive + today" construction:
‘He's [actually/literally] having lunch ’
‘If I had invested in bitcoin, I would have been rich [as of this instant]’
Before simple future it signifies emphasis
‘[I swear] I will take away your phone’
Progressive tense
For present tense, use the particle "fi" after the verb and before your object (if it's a transitive verb) to imply progressiveness of the action:
Ttaíeb gatto?
"Do you cook cake?"
Ttaíeb fi gatto?
"Are you cooking a cake?"
Noşreb teei
"I drink tea"
Noşreb f et teei
"I am drinking [a cup of] tea"
(You can remove 'et'. Just wanted to illustrate how to use 'fi' in different biomes in a sentence)
For other tenses, you need to conjugate the auxiliary verb "keen" in that very tense and then follow your main verb in the simple present. Otherwise you're not allowed "fi".
Simple past:
‘I saw a cat’
‘I was seeing a cat’
Simple future
‘I will major in math’
‘I will be majoring in math’
Note for past tense, progressive aspect can also signify past habbit
‘I used to hunt/fish ~ I was hunting/fishing’