Future tense

The verb "n'id" (eat/ate) is composed of two parts as follows.

"n'i-d" (eat/ate)

"n'i-" is a stem. It is the body of the verb. "-d" is a finite suffix. It express the end of the verb complex.

To express future tense for example someone will eat put the future suffix "-iny-" after the verb stem. And put the finite suffix "-d" after them.

"n'i-iny-d" (will eat)

001.	n'i-	d.
	Vt	-FIN
	eat/ate
	Someone	ate.

002.	n'i	-iny-	d.
	Vt	FUT-	-FIN
	eat/ate	will
	Someone	will	eat.

To express a fixed future, not "-iny-" but "-i-" is to be there.

-i-  (fixed future)

-ivu-  (very near future)

Present-Past tense.

Present and past are expressed by the same form.

	Japanese	Ainu	Nivkh	English
past (ex. yesterday)	tabe-ta	e	n'id	ate
present (ex. everyday)	tabe-ru	e	n'id	eat
future (ex.?Ftomorrow)	tabe-ru tsumori da	e kusu ne	n'i-iny-d	will eat