When indicating 'tense' in Chinese, as shown above, there are 'particles', 'time-specifying words' and also many cases where it depends on context.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

In Japanese, even if it's the same word, if the notation is different, slight differences in meaning and nuance can be expressed.

a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'

(used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action

a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the `correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to `correct' orthography

a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs

a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable

a pronoun or pronominal phrase (as `each other') that expresses a mutual action or relationship between the individuals indicated in the plural subject

use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one

a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'

an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')

the periphrastic genitive

the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)

the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning

a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'

in grammar, the form that determines whether the subject is the speaker, the one spoken to, or the third person

antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')

the imperfect tense

the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)

rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi)

either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material

The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.

two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs

a weak verb

The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect

relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles

Suffixes, 1: "-ion" creates nouns that show the meaning of 'action, state, process, results,' and so on.