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Verbs are most often derived by pairing a light verb with either a following adjective or a preceding absolutive noun. When an absolutive noun is part of a complex verb, the clause's patient is instead marked as dative. | Verbs are most often derived by pairing a light verb with either a following adjective or a preceding absolutive noun. When an absolutive noun is part of a complex verb, the clause's patient is instead marked as dative. | ||
====Other TAM and converbs==== | |||
A number of tense-aspect combinations are formed by compounding verbs. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! imperfective infinitive | |||
| verb.IMPV + be.INF | |||
|- | |||
! pluperfect | |||
| verb.PFCT + be.IPFV.PST/NPST | |||
|- | |||
! discontinuous | |||
| verb.PFCT + become.PFV | |||
|- | |||
! habitual | |||
| verb.IPFV + do.IPFV | |||
|- | |||
! iterative | |||
| verb.IPFV + verb.IPFV | |||
|} | |||
Three mood suffixes can be applied to indicative verbs, subjunctive ''-кьи'', conditional ''-ссә'', and abilitative ''-ыъ''. | |||
There are two converbs: relative/attributive ''-ды'' which puts no restriction on its verb's inflection, and simultaneous ''-цы'' which can only be applied to imperfective verbs. | |||
====Questions==== | |||
Questions are marked either with interrogative proforms or a set of interrogative verb suffixes: ''-ма'' for polar questions, ''-(й)ә̄й'' for counterfactual questions, and ''-май'' for mediative questions. | |||
====Verb affix order==== | |||
(table here) | |||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||