Imperative and Subjunctive. The single tense (present) of each of these moods corresponds to the same tense in English, as:
cadto búas (go there to-morrow)
cun cumadto ca buas, tauága acó (If you go there tomorrow, call me).
Observations. 1. The English past perfect, indicative, is supplied in Bisayan by the present tense, indicative, of the potential form which we shall see later.[69] As:
han imo pag-abót nacacatima na acó (when you arrived, I had already finished).
2. The English future perfect tense is supplied in Bisayan by the future tense, indicative, of the potential form. As
umabút ca ng̃anì macacatima na aco (when you arrive, I shall have finished).
3. The Latin and Spanish imperfect past tense, subjunctive mood, is supplied in Bisayan by the present, subjunctive, and future indicative. As
Cun gumican acó niyán, diri co hiya igquiquita buás (If I should go today, I would not meet him tó-morrow).
4. The Latin and Spanish perfect past tense, subjunctive, is supplied in Bisayan by the past tense, indicative.