Beginner I
Learn some basic time tense vocabulary in American Sign Language (ASL).
Auxiliary verb: WILL.
Adverb: TOMORROW.
NEXT WEEK. A manual number between one and nine can be incorporated into this sign to indicate a number of weeks in the future.
The following illustrations demonstrate some ASL signs to express a number of next years.
next-year
English equivalent: next year (next one year).
next-2-year
The numeral handshape of the ASL word next-year can be incorporated with a number between 1 and 5. Beyond the numbers from six, one signs the number and then "year" (informal) which has a different movement from the regular or formal "year".
And so on.
6-year-next
Numeral incorporation doesn't work with the rest of the numbers. This video shows the similar format for the rest of the numbers.
10-year-next
Use the cardinal numbers for the rest of the numbers in a similar format as the previous ones.
Another way of signing this expression is this format: # + YEAR + LATER but this can be referred to the future tense or the past tense in a story (e.g. My grandmother moved to America and got married in 1890. Fifteen years later, she died).
Another way is FUTURE + # + YEAR. E.g. MAYBE FUTURE 8+YEAR IX-me MOVE-OUT.
Related tutorial: Telling o'clock.
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