Greek, the tense of the verb (particularly in the indicative) may convey aspect and time, with the aspect generally being the primary factor and time a secondary one (so “past time” verbs can sometimes be present tense, etc.). The time of the verb is thus often largely developed from contextual features rather than from the verb itself, though certain verbal tenses (such as the imperfect or future) tend to have a fairly solid pattern of time reference. While we understand the basic concept of time