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* ''Ëe pervient krijteend zim vleend.'' - She came screaming and crying. | * ''Ëe pervient krijteend zim vleend.'' - She came screaming and crying. | ||
The participle, or '''zoppijn''', has had a strong linguistic evolution: the present and the future tense of this mood are now used as nouns and adjectives and they're no more recognised as verbs. The only tense that is still seen as verb is the past, or '''zoppijn pervecht''' | The participle, or '''zoppijn''', has had a strong linguistic evolution: the present and the future tense of this mood are now used as nouns and adjectives and they're no more recognised as verbs. The only tense that is still seen as verb is the past, or '''zoppijn pervecht''', that can be used as adjective also. | ||
The present of participle is formed by substituting the infinitive ending for ''-oer'' for masculine and ''-eur'' for feminine gender: | The present of participle is formed by substituting the infinitive ending for ''-oer'' for masculine and ''-eur'' for feminine gender: | ||
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* ''Hij zierel ki kant est iewen.'' - The singing woman (= the woman who sings) is young. | * ''Hij zierel ki kant est iewen.'' - The singing woman (= the woman who sings) is young. | ||
* ''Hies ziers ki kanten zunt zenn.'' - The singing men (= the men who sing) are old. | * ''Hies ziers ki kanten zunt zenn.'' - The singing men (= the men who sing) are old. | ||
The future of participle is formed by using the past stem of the verb and by adding the ending ''-uir''. Nowadays the so formed words are recognised as nouns or, more rarely, as adjectives: | |||
* ''lechtuir'' - reading; | |||
* ''kreituir'' - creature; | |||
* ''natuir'' - nature; | |||
* ''matuir'' - ripe, mature. | |||
==Greetings== | ==Greetings== | ||