Inchoative aspect is a verbal category, referring to an action soon to take place. It can be found in conservative Indo-European languages such as Latin and Lithuanian, and also in Balto-Fennic languages. In other languages, auxiliary verbs can be used, for example French (as aller plus infinitive: je vais faire "I am going to do"), English (often as "I am going to do" or "I am about to do"). In these cases, the term near future is more commonly used. Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Balto-Fennic languages are a subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages, spoken around the Baltic Sea by about 6 million people. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... In linguistics, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected to in the future. ...

Since inchoative is an aspect and not a tense, it can be combined with tenses to form present inchoative, past inchoative and future inchoative, all used in Lithuanian. Finnish employs a systematic construction ole-TEMP-PERS X-maisilla-POSS "to be on (my/your/etc.) X-ings", where the temporal and personal ending and possessive suffix are to be selected according to the context. For example, "ol+i+t kaatu+maisilla+si, literally "you were on your fallings down", meaning "you were about to fall down". The -maisilla- is a string of derivational suffixes: ma participle; i plural; s adjective suffix; lla adessive case. Aspect can mean one of the following things: In computer programming, an aspect is a feature that is linked to many parts of a program, but which is not necessarily the primary function of the program. ... Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time at which an event described by a sentence occurs. ... The possessive suffix is an feature unique to Finno-Ugric languages. ... In the Finnish language, Estonian language and Hungarian language the adessive case is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of on. For example, Estonian laud (table) and laual (on the table), Hungarian asztal and asztalon (on the table). ...