The term present tense is usually used in descriptions of specific languages to refer to a particular grammatical form or set of forms; these may have a variety of uses, not all of which will necessarily refer to present time.
In particular, the present tense is often used to refer to future events (I am seeing James tomorrow; My train leaves at 3 o'clock this afternoon).
As with some other conjugations in Greek, some verbs in the present tense accept different (but equivalent) forms of use for the same person.
What follows are examples of present tense conjugation in Greek for the verbs βλέπω (see), τρώω (eat) and αγαπώ (love).
To emphasise the present continuous, expressions such as "en train de" may be used.
What follows is an example of present indicative tense conjugation in Italian.
The following table shows the conjugation of the verbs write (пишува/pišuva), speak (зборува/zboruva), want (сака/saka) and open (отвaра/otvara).
The particle is placed at the end of a clause, and when a tense is referenced, the word order switches to SOV.
[3] In a sentence such as "落雨了", it would be the perfective aspect in Standard Mandarin, whereas this would be analysed as the present tense in contemporary Shanghainese, where 哉 has undergone lenition to 了.