Abstract
Tense, which is a relative concept, has been a searching area in all branches of science that were born on the basis of philosophy, starting with philosophy. In terms of language, tense is examined in two groups as real tense and verb tenses. Verbs have tense equivalents such as past, future, present and so on through inflections and verbal adjective suffixes also have tense values. It is known that these tense values can also express different tense values when examined functionally and semantically, apart from the tense values that an inflection includes. In the study, the tense values to which verbal adjectives suffixes correspond were examined in functional and semantical terms based on Kazakh literary texts.
Unlike the classifications determined in Kazakh grammar books, the tense values of the verbal adjectives were discussed in functional and semantical terms. While examining the adjective-verbs, considering that a verbal adjective suffix corresponds to two or more tenses, the tense value of each verbal adjective suffix was demonstrated with examples. In addition, due to the fact that the verbal adjective suffixes become stereotyped over time and gain the function of deriving nouns and adjectives, special attention was paid to whether the verb+verbal-adjective structure mentioned in the examples is included in the dictionaries as entries. Therefore, the examples including the verbal adjectives suffixes that did not become stereotyped, that is, did not lose their basic function were chosen.