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Verb stems mainly use reduplication and Sanskrit-style ablaut to mark tense. * CalaC- reduplicant for the past tense

...resent Continuous. Verbal morphology is very limited. Verbs in the present tense consist of a single form (the stem) which is combined with Subject Clitics ...'''Aorist''' covers more or less the functions of English Past Simple and Past Perfect. The form consists of the stem of the verb with the addition of an

Verbs are inflected for tense, aspect, and mood, but not person or number. burn+PAST I+CAUSAL letter+OBJ [tis] come+PAST out-of city+LOC.*<br>

| to speak, to proclaim || past tense härnama | to say || irregular past käe-

The preterite tense uses the suffixes -An, -Ath, -A, -Adh, -Ad, -Ar after the infinitive form. ...imperfective works by removing the -n from the 1st person singular present tense and adding the suffixes -nÛch, -nÛth, -nUd, -nUth, -nUt, -nÛr?

====Tense and Aspect==== ...past tense is usually shown with an ending of "a", while the near and far past are shown with endings of "-aj" and "-ak" respectively.

|past participle !Tense

...lex consists of at least one verb and a number of particles which indicate tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and the speaker's opinion. The general formula * Tense/aspect I

! Tense !! Novbasa !! English | Past || ''Ja strojah'' || I built

#the past stem *Present tense: PRESENT + ''-ig'', negative ''θri'' + IMPERATIVE

| past I-mutation - This shows the future tense.

[[Present tense|Present]]: '''mi am''' ''I love''<br> [[Future tense|Future]]: '''mi amero''' ''I shall love''<br>

...s to the irrealis form. All of these forms can be further divided into [[w:Tense–aspect–mood|TAM]] categories. Each form receive a different marking, re | [[w:Future tense|Future tense]] || — || Future || — || Optative || —

! colspan="8" | Tense ! colspan="2" | Past

...s fall in three broad classes, based on how they mark the past vs. the non-past tenses: the ''zu-/vu-'' class, the etymologically related ''z-/v-'' class,

...'s ''yi'' and ''ye'', which were the interrogative forms of "to be" in the past and present, as generic interrogative markers, and the resultant loss of Iv ...ubjunctive/conditional mood, which can be used in any of the three tenses: past, present, and future.

...bly the present participle (which can also serve as an agent noun) and the past participle, usually with a passive sense. ...ve active, the 3rd sg. perfect active, the 3rd pl. perfect active, and the past participle.

=====''Tense''===== TolsianR's tense system is divided into past, present, and future, which are encoded in the conjugation of the verbs in

...djective participles ''-bju'' for future, ''tju'' for present, ''lju'' for past. ...verb, add ''-juvit'' to the root. The ''-t'' can be changed to change its tense. ''dobrjuvit'' (make better/improve), ''veljuvit'' (enlarge/make bigger). T

...s. Participles work like adjectives but the present one is invariable. The past one (or the supine) never takes a prefix like German ''ge-''. These take a dissimilatory vowel between the stem and the past tense/participle suffix.