{{Short description|Grammatical tense referring to tomorrow}}A '''crastinal tense''' (abbreviated {{sc|'''cras'''}}) is a future tense applied to a following or subsequent day. (''Crāstinō diē'' is the Latin for 'tomorrow'.)<ref>Livy, bks 3 & 10; Apuleius, 1.</ref>
Crastinal tense refers to an event which will occur tomorrow (in an absolute tense system) or the following day (in a relative tense system). A '''post-crastinal''' tense indicates some time after tomorrow or the following day.
Crastinal future (as opposed to a more generic near future) is uncommon, but is found in several Bantu and related languages, such as Luganda<ref>Kamoga & Stevick (1968), ''Luganda Basic Course'', p.209.</ref> and Chichewa.<ref>Maxson, n. (2011), ''Chichewa for English Speakers'', p.41.</ref>
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