The non-past tense is a grammatical tense for the present and the future. It is also known as the dictionary form of words. This tense generally defaults to being about future events but can be referring to the present in some contexts.1

Example

ใ‚ใ‚‹ใ = to walk/will walk ใŸในใ‚‹ = to eat/will eat

Footnotes

  1. Japanese from Scratch (4) โ†ฉ