kuehe / koʼára / koʼẽrõ

Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday

Level 1

Kuehe is “yesterday”, koʼára is “today” and koʼẽrõ is “tomorrow”.

How It Works

WordMeaningExample
kueheyesterdayPeíto ou kuehe “Peíto came yesterday”
koʼáratodayKo ára che jarýi oĩ távape “Today my grandmother is in town”
koʼẽrõtomorrowOúta koʼẽrõ “He will come tomorrow”

The time word can go before or after the verb. Peíto ou kuehe and Kuehe ou Peíto mean the same.

A verb with no ending can mean now or before, so the time word makes the time clear: Aha kuehe “I went yesterday”. For tomorrow, the verb usually takes -ta: Oúta koʼẽrõ.

Koʼára is also written as two words, ko ára “this day”. For “the day before yesterday”, say kuehe ambue. You will also see koʼẽro. Both spellings mean “tomorrow”, and koʼẽrõ is the usual written form.

Examples (5)

  1. Peíto ou kuehe.

    Peíto came yesterday.

    Kuehe shows that ou means “came”.

  2. Oúta koʼẽrõ.

    He will come tomorrow.

    Koʼẽrõ and the ending -ta both point to the future.

  3. Ko ára che jarýi oĩ távape.

    Today my grandmother is in town.

    Ko ára, also written koʼára, means “today”.

  4. Jajuecháta koʼẽrõ.

    See you tomorrow.

    A common goodbye with koʼẽrõ.

  5. Aháma kuehe pe mboʼehaópe.

    I already went to school yesterday.

    Kuehe puts the going in the past.

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kuehe / koʼára / koʼẽrõLevel 1Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday

Learn This First

Time words give the time that a plain verb leaves open, so the plain verb comes first.

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Words in This Pattern

kuehekoʼárakoʼẽrõkoʼẽroko ára