Meanings
- not comparablegrammarRelating to future time later than today.
Posthodiernal na- does not appear in my narrative corpus outside of the quoted speech of characters.
2015, Doris L. Payne, Shahar Shirtz, Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 1702 more examples
As an example of a language which has an opposition between hodiernal and posthodiernal future, where the hodiernal future is distinct from the present tense(s), we may mention Aghem (Bantu, Hyman 1979).
1984, Brian Butterworth, Bernard Comrie, Östen Dahl, Explanations for Language Universals, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 113Hodiernal future tense: I will love her sometime today. Posthodiernal conditional perfect tense: I would have loved her sometime after today. Hesternal past tense: I loved her early today. Prehesternal past tense: I loved her earlier today.
2016, Joseph Cherian, Idiotic English and Idiomatic English: The Professional’s Guide to Using English Intelligently, Influentially, and Internationally, WestBow Press, →ISBN
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posthodiernal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/posthodiernal
“posthodiernal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/posthodiernal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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