Some tenses:
*Future tenses. Some languages have different future tenses to indicate how far into the future we are talking about. Some of these include:
**Near future tense: in the near future, soon
**Hodiernal future tense: sometime today
**Post-hodiernal future tense: sometime after today
**Remote future tense: in the more distant future
**Predictive future tense: a future tense which expresses a prediction rather than an intention, i.e., 'I predict he will lose the election, although I want him to win'. As such, it is really more of a mood than a tense. (Its tenseness rather than modality lies in the fact that you can predict the future, but not the past.)
*Nonfuture tense: refers to either the present or the past, but does not clearly specify which. Contrasts with future.
*Nonpast tense: refers to either the present or the future, but does not clearly specify which. Contrasts with past.
*Not-yet tense: has not happened in present or past (nonfuture), but often with the implication that it is expected to happen in the future. (As such, is both a tense and a modality). In English, it is expressed with 'not yet', hence its name.
*Past tenses. Some languages have different past tenses to indicate how far into the past we are talking about.
**Hesternal past tense: yesterday or early, but not remote
**Hodiernal past tense: sometime earlier today
**Immediate past tense: very recent past tense, e.g., in the last minute or two
**Recent past tense: in the last few days/weeks/months (exact definition varies)
**Remote past tense: more than a few days/weeks/months ago (exact definition varies)
**Nonrecent past tense: not recent past tense, contrasting with recent past tense
**Nonremote past tense: not remote past tense, contrasting with remote past tense
**Prehesternal past tense: before hesternal past tense
**Prehodiernal past tense: before hodiernal past tense
**Preterite: past, conceived as a whole
*Present tense
*Still tense: indicates a situation held to be the case, at or immediately before the utterance
*Absolute-relative tenses
**future perfect tense: by some time in the future, before some time in the future
**future-in-future tense: at some time in the future, will still be in the future
**future-in-past tense: at some time in the past, will be in the future
**future-perfect-in-past tense: by some time which is in the future of some time in the past, e.g., Sally went to work; by the time she should be home, the burglary would have been completed.
**past perfect tense: at some time in the past, was already in the past
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