Comparative Grammar

Tenses

English
Greek
Latin
German
French
Hebrew
Spanish
Others

English

Reference: Wenham, p. 11.

English

Past
Present
Future
Continuous

Imperfect (Past Continuous)

I was loving / I used to love

Present Continuous

I amloving

Future Continuous

I shall be loving

Simple
I loved
I love
I shall love
Complete

Pluperfect

I had loved

Perfect

I have loved

Future Perfect

I shll have loved

Continuous-Complete

Pluperfect Continuous

I had been loving

Perfect Continuous

I have been loving

Future Perfect

I shall have been loving

Greek

Reference: Wenham, Elements of New Testament Greek (Oxford: OUP, ).
Robertson, A.T. A Grammar of The Greek New Testament in the Lihgt of Hitorical Research (Nashville: Broadman, 1934).

Greek

Past
Present
Future
Continued
Imperfect, Aorist
Present
Future
Complete
Pluperfect
Perfect
Future Perfect

Latin

Reference: Smith, F. Kinchin. Teach Yourself Latin (London: English Universities Press, 1962).

Latin

Past
Present
Future
Continued
Imperfect
Present
Future
Complete
Pluperfect
Perfect
Future Perfect

German (Deutsche)

Reference: Gewehr, Wolf and von Schmidt Wolff A. German Review & Readings (New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1973).

Reference: Gewehr, Wolf and von Schmidt Wolff A. German Review & Readings (New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1973).

Past
Present
Future
Point
Simple Past (Imperfekt) (Note 1)
Simple Present (Note 1)
Present Future (Futur I) p.74
Complete
Past Perfect (Plusquamperfekt)
Future Perfect (Futur II) p.75
Complete
Present Perfect (Perfekt) Past

Note 1: In contrast to English there are no emphatic or progressive forms in German. Therefore, the English forms, I go, I do go, I am going are all translated as ich gehe. (Past tenses see p.47)

Note 2: conditional and conditional Perfect have a special form, but some grammar books don't treat them as separate tenses.

French (Francaise)

Reference: Handbook of French Grammar (in Simplified Chinese)

Reference: Handbook of French Grammar (in Simplified Chinese)

Past (temps passé)
Present
Future
Point
Simple Pastt (le passé simple)
Present (temps présent)
Simple Future (temps futur : le futur simple) p.164
Point-Continuous

Composite Past (le passé composé)

the action was finished in the undefined past, but its effect can be felt upto now.

 
Continuous
Imperfect (l'imparfait)

 

Spanish (Espanol)

Spanish

Hebrew (one of Semitic)

Reference: Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990).

Semitic has no means of distinguishing different tenses.

It has instead a great variety of ways of translating verbal relatives, e.g. causative, intensive, desiderative, jussive, reciprocal, reflexive.

Others

Reference: Lord, Robert Comparative Linguistics

The Arabic imperfect is by no means a tense as it can express the future as well as the present. (p.141.)

With Russian and the other Slav languages, there is more than a faint trace of correlation with tense. There is in fact a preterite (Past) form of both aspects, and in Russian, a composite future in the imperfective aspect. (p.141.)