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Verbs are conjugated according to person, number, tense, aspect, mood which are indicated by suffixes, prefixes and reduplication. ! style="" | Past simple

...onger necessary, as Sorvin and Éro have associated clitic, modifier, case, tense, and number with the appropriate mutation. In spite of their enmity, they h ..., word order can vary without ambiguity. In sentences 2b and 2c, the past tense marker ''hai'' has cliticized to the first person singular ''ji''. As the

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...sent and Past Continuous tenses and, less commonly, Future and Subjunctive Past tenses for regular verbs. * The Present tense can also convey a future sense, e.g. ''mi canav'' "I'm singing" and "I will

...ority of particles are very short words. For example, particles indicating tense and aspect optionally stand before a contentive and give temporal informati ...dle, thus "is dying" (or according to context, "was dying" etc.). The past tense particle '''''do''''' appears before '''''garag''''' "be neighbour" to indi

...st class 1 & 2 verbs fall into this category. Inchoative verbs in the past tense may be used for a present state - e.g. ''fahmé'' "I came to understand" = ...difference between the two categories is clearly noticeable in the perfect tense. For example:

...ve temporal complementiser '''ekuo''' is used to express nostalgia about a past time or anticipation for a future time. |• '''eti''' || 'to have previously done ...' || [PAST] || [NOM] did […]

...uation that the mains tress falls on the time slot and also explains why a tense has always to be stated in every verb. ...'You will be able to write me.' In non-conjugated forms, however, not the tense marker is not stressed but the last suffix: pen'ön 'to write', pepen'öl '

-       There are 5 tense and also many time and issue modes. | valign="top" width="99" |'''2-Past'''

...gin has no tense or aspect forms; aspect is more of a lexical feature, and tense is inferred through context or explicitly through time expressions such as todo: when, before, after, while (relative tense)

===Tense and aspect=== ====Perfect and past====

|'''Tense''' !'''Past'''

*Tense particles instead of older tense inflections Verbs are not conjugated, but are used with tense particles.

...he '''imperfect''', and the '''future'''; the perfective tenses are the '''past '''and the '''pluperfect'''. Tenses are the “basic unit” verbs conjugat ...class is identified as '''1ai '''and has a different behaviour in the past tense. This is probably the most common conjugation, also because that's the one

...e finite verb forms and does not mark verbs according to person, number or tense. The current verbal system appears to reflect an earlier periphrastic syste Verbs do not show tense, but take suffixes to show aspect:

...ined, built" (as past of ''serémi'' "I join, build"), or "I presented" (as past of the aorist form ''sisara'' "I present"). ! Secondary endings<br/>(past)

...stress, they are long and tense; with secondary stress, they are short and tense; with tertiary stress, they are short and lax (/e/ and /ɑ/ never receive t ...al moods. There are a number of suffixes that can derive nouns from verbs. Tense is not marked but rather implied through context.

*having primarily imperfect/perfect [[#Aspect|aspect]] instead of [[#Tense|tense]], as reflected in the vowel structure of the aforementioned roots ...l as inchoative and frequentative), and optionally for [[#Aspect and tense|tense]]

...inventory as it features lax and tense vowel pairs due to vowel reduction. Tense vowels include /ä e ø o i y u/ while their lax equivalents can be /a ɛ � ...endent from stress. In Eastern and North-Eastern dialects long vowels have tense vowel qualities. Thus, a long /iː/ in Standard Efenol would always corresp

...ve temporal complementiser '''ekuo''' is used to express nostalgia about a past time or anticipation for a future time. |• '''eti''' || 'to have previously done ...' || [PAST] || [NOM] did […]