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...with the quality of short vowels, except long ones are pronounced as more tense, while short vowels are slightly centralized. The only exception is ā whic ...English Present Simple, Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses. The future tense is inferred from the context.

**'''Imperfect:''' Expresses an ongoing or habitual action/state in the past. ...:''' Expresses an action/state in the future. It is also used as a present tense in narratives.

* The tense/aspect system is a bit confused. | "Present" tense

...become separate languages. Needless to say, Harākti is also set to distant past, around at least 1500 BCE, so it cannot be used in modern contexts. ====Tense====

Guimin has 22 light verbs from which all others are derived. They inflect for tense, aspect, mood, voice, patient number and gender, and other optional categor =====Tense, aspect, and mood=====

* There are 5 tense and also many time and issue modes. |2-Past

When stressed, these vowels have the tense cardinal pronunciations of [i e a o u]. When unstressed and short, they ten There are two types of discourse demonstrative: future and past.

! Tense | ''-bu-/-bo-/-du-/-do-/-ju-/-jo-'' (past)<br>''-mi-/-me-/-ni-/-ne-/-nyi-/-nye-'' (future)

...erson singular verbs - e.g. ''øml'' "I walk" - as well as in all synthetic past 3rd plural forms in -''rtn''. The realization of this vowel varies regiona ...ir'' - ''kaft'' - ''køjmur'' - ''kapætir'' - ''køpunts'' - ''kaftse''. The past participle is ''kaft''.

...regularly pronounced '''ʌ:ιυι''' [iʹhu.hɐ], but the irregularly pronounced past and future forms (spelt regularly) as '''ω:ιυι''' [inʹhu.hu] and '''ι ...the advantage that it allows for irregularities to be shown, such that the past and future tenses of ''to sleep'' as given in the previous section are show

...onfusing is that two verbs -- to be and to have -- do indeed conjugate for tense, and are used extensively at the start of discourses, and at jumps in the r The three main forms of each verb only show aspect. True tense marking requires the presence of a copula.

...ctive/passive voice-distinction, a 1/2/3 form-distinction, a non-past/past tense-distinction, and a subjunctive/indicative mood-distinction. Regarding the f

...t prefixes fused together. Yrkyr lacks a grammatical [[w:Grammatical tense|tense]]. There are primary and secondary aspects, with the secondary aspects bein ...mplete and can usually be translated into English using present continuous tense: ''wytli'' - "to sing", ''wytytliŋ'' - "I'm singing".

...ctive/passive voice distinction, a 1/2/3 form-distinction, a non-past/past tense-distinction, and a subjunctive/indicative mood-distinction. Regarding the f

** ''bin'' for the past ...d to form adjectives from nouns.<ref>''-ney'' is also used to form passive/past active participe</ref> Therefore, it is also possible to form longer posses

...having such features as suffixed definite articles and deriving the future tense from present subjunctive. There is also considerable influence from languag ! colspan="4" | Past participle (strong)

* eo = past * teno = future; planning or promising for the future; expected; future tense

...s were conjugated at least according to number, person, tense (present and past) and aspect(perfective and imperfective, which can be found in all the mode

...n't form a diphthong, apostrophe is used: ''tai'' (for long) vs. ''ta'i'' (past) **Showing tense-aspect: