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 Particles in Rówok are a bloody mess, as they exist for every [[#Verbal number|number]], [[#Voice|voice]], and [[#Aspect|aspect]].
+In that order:
+*'''singular, dual, plural'''
+*'''active, middle, plural'''
+*'''imperfect, perfect, future, future perfect'''
+Here is an example of the possible participial forms a verb can have before [[#Derivational morphology|various forms of pre- and infixation]].
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 | {{sc|pass}} ||yatnakín || yetnekín || yatnakayín || yetnekeyín
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+*The '''imperfect''' is used in the sense of the English imperfect: '''doing (actively or statively) and being done'''.
+*The '''perfect''' is used in the sense of the English periphrastic perfect participle: '''having done or having been done'''.
+*The future is used with the sense of the Latin future active participle: '''about to do or be done''' (or in the South we might say '''fixin'/fittin' to (be) do(ne) ;)''')
+*The '''future perfect''' has two functions:
+**In the '''[[#Active voice|active]]''' and some '''[[#Middle voice|middle]]''' voice constructions it is used as in English: '''having done'''.
+**In the '''passive''' and some '''middle''' voice constructions it is used as in the Latin gerundive: '''needing to do or be done''' ('''''Karthago delenda est!''''' = '''''Kárŧag ukudúnkuy!''''').
+Some of these forms are rare just due to situational circumstances (for instance how often would you need to talk about '''''yetenkéyli''''' or '''two things needing to have been run'''?), but theoretically all verbal roots can exist in all of these forms.
 ===Derivational morphology===