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Temporal Relations
ta ritéret|the next day
te ritéret|the previous day
niaq|at that time
taniaq|sometime in the future
teniaq|sometime in the past
talepa|immediately
tareft|right away
taseelt|later
takraqt|soon
telepa|just now
tritiis|just a short time ago
tereft|recently
teseelt|earlier
tekraqt|earlier soon
egkraqt|soon (in a non-specific affirmative sense)
-ang|Ending for regular repetition of events
riténesang|every 4 days
niagang|Exception to -ang from niaq-ang.
si ... ro|Intervals from ... to
Temporal units after ta or te are indexed by 1, i.e., the day after tomorrow would be on the third day in iiooqas.
vichi ra ritéretang uk nak.|I go to the duck every two days.
vichi te ritéret uk nak.|I went to the duck yesterday.
vichu si te ritéret ro ta ritétre uk nak.|I go to the duck from yesterday until the day after tomorrow.
In addition, lepa, reft, seelt, kraqt are used to subdivide each interval into quarter, half, three-quarter, and full intervals.
Letters are sometimes omitted for duplication (nivis-seelt -> niviseelt).
The German translations are only approximate.
vichi ra ritéretlepa uk nak.|I'm going to the duck tomorrow morning.
vichi ra ritéretreft uk nak.|I'm going to the duck tomorrow morning.
vichi ra ritéretseelt uk nak.|I'm going to the duck tomorrow afternoon.
vichi ra ritéretkraqt uk nak.|I'm going to the duck tomorrow evening/night/late.
vichi ra niviseelt uk nak.|I'm going to the duck later in the week (but not quite at the end).