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====Verbs====
====Verbs====
Active-stative, fluid-S. The verbal system is moderately complex inflecting for number, person, animacy, mood, epistemic modality, evidentiality, tense, and aspect. Furthermore, object, subject, and proximity is marked on the finite verb. The verbs can all be constructed from the appropriate verbal stem in combination with the relevant affixes. There are exceedingly few irregular verbs, somewhere around three to five depending on analyses.  
Active-stative, fluid-S. The verbal system is moderately complex inflecting for number, person, animacy, mood, epistemic modality, evidentiality, tense, and aspect. Furthermore, object, subject, and proximity is marked on the finite verb. The verbs can all be constructed from the appropriate verbal stem in combination with the relevant affixes. There are exceedingly few irregular verbs, somewhere around three to five depending on analyses.  
ḏa "1p" ḏameh "1pl.ecl." meh "1pl.incl"
ḇe "2P"
ka "3P"
repetitiveness can be derived by: ẕuliń -> ziẕuliń


//notes
//notes
In inanimate sentences
high volitional thingy: -yéé- [jě:]
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<h1>THIS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN I EXPECTED</h1>
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="14" align="center"| Verb construction
|-
| Tense
| Patient
| Agent
| Number
! Root
| Aspect
| Evidentiality
| Epistemic modality
| Mood
|-
| wá-||ḡ-||aa||me||ẕul||ín||u||źi||r
|-
| {{sc|non.fut}} || {{sc|inan}} || {{sc|anim}} || {{sc|pl}} ||
|-
| wáḇaameẕulínuźir
|}


It is most prudent to begin with the temporal facet of verb construction for the verb is ever marked with a suitable tense, of which we are allowed to choose two: present and non-present.
It is most prudent to begin with the temporal facet of verb construction for the verb is ever marked with a suitable tense, of which we are allowed to choose two: present and non-present.