Please illustrate absolute tense and relative tense in Japanese with examples.

The reference point of "absolute time" is the time of speaking; The reference point of "relative tense" is the time in the main sentence.

For example:

1. Private airport, tourism, AUO and accommodation.

I'm waiting for my friend, who is going to the airport.

-Wait, it happened.

Going is what will happen (the main clause is now, so the relative tense and the absolute tense are the same)

2. Private airport, tourism, AUO, accommodation.

I'm waiting for my friend to go to the airport.

-Wait, it happened.

Go is what has happened (the time of the main sentence is now, so the relative tense and the absolute tense are the same)

3. Private airport travel, AUO accommodation, etc.

I'm waiting for my friend, who is going to the airport.

-Wait, it's already happened

Going was what would have happened then, and it may have happened now (relative tense)

4. Private airport, tourism, AUO and accommodation.

I'm waiting for my friend to go to the airport.

-Wait, it's already happened

-go is what happened at that time (relative tense)

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