hù (14_Future & Complex Tenses)


hù-

hù-

Pitch Accent

  • Morae:
  • Pattern: L
  • Class: atonal

Grammatical function

  • Type: Tense Modifier Prefix
  • Function: Relative Past (“Behind”)
  • Meaning: Places the action temporally “behind” the primary tense.

Syntax

  • Pluperfect: hùzè-[Verb] (Past of the Past / “Had done”).
  • Past Future: hùpa-[Verb] (Future relative to Past / “Was going to”).

Example sentence

Example 1

  • Asaxi: shěsokam hùzèchěcho’.
  • English: The library had closed.
  • Polish: x