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| ===Verbs=== | | ===Verbs=== |
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| The Ín Duári verb is moderately synthetic, capable of indicating voice, tense, and aspect. Three tenses, a present, past, and future are distinguished. Additionally, three aspects are marked, namely the habitual, imperfect and perfect. However, person is not marked and requires a pronoun or an overt noun preceding the verb. Pro-drop is allowed only in embedded clauses and only if the subject of the embedded clause is the same as that of its matrix clause. Mood is for the most part indicated by particles preceding the main verb; however, an inflectional Purposive mood exists. The Purposive exists only in the Active voice and is uninflected for tense, instead inheriting its tense marking from the verb in the matrix clause. | | ==== The Copula ==== |
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| Ín Duári possesses three non-finite forms, namely the gerund and participle, and a verbal noun (sometimes called infinitive). The verbal noun may take additional derivational suffixes.
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| The following table demonstrates the conjugation of the regular verb ''vára'' (to see):
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| {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" |
| |+ '''Verb Tense-Aspect Marking''' | | |+ |
| ! | | ! TAM |
| ! Active | | ! Positive |
| ! Passive | | ! Negative |
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| ! Past Habitual | | ! Present |
| | varántir || azvaráltir | | | bâz << bey-ân-z, biy-ân-z |
| | | bâš, bâšq << bey-ân-z-g, biy-ân-z-g |
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| ! Non-Past Habitual | | ! Future/Irrealis |
| | evarán || azeváralan | | | bidâz << biy-ad-ân-z |
| | | bidâšq << biy-ad-ân-z-g |
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| ! Past Perfect | | ! Past |
| | vará || azvarál | | | baštân << ba-š-t-ân |
| | | baštâq << ba-št-ân-g |
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| ! Past Imperfect | | ! Imperative |
| | evára || azevarál | | | baš << ba-š |
| | | bašqân, bašgân << ba-š-g-ân |
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| ! Present Perfect
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| | vára || azvarál
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| ! Present Imperfect
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| | evárae || azevaráli
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| ! Future Perfect
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| | varái || azvarál
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| ! Future Imperfect
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| | evaráien || azvaraiél
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| ! Purposive
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| | varánuiţ
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| | style="text-align:center"| n/a
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