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The Bhadhagha verbal system is very different from Tíogall, and much closer to [[Äivö]].

The past tense is marked by a séimhiú on the verb as in Irish, except that the suffixes are the same as in the present tense. This comes from a construction that translates to "it was the case that ...", which also survives in Äivö. Even non-lenitable consonants get aspirated in casual Bhadhagha, though in the written language a particle is used when the first consonant isn't lenitable.

The future tense however has a special set of suffixes, derived from the Old Tíogall future tense:

The verbal noun is extremely irregular in Bhadhagha (more so than in Tíogall). One somewhat common way of deriving verbal nouns is with a prefix (''ao''+N) but other verbal nouns may use the suffixes ''-ach'', ''-ta/-te'' or ''-st''. Verbs loaned from Camalic simply use the stem as the verbal noun. Some verbal nouns are suppletive.

 

Bhadhagha is not split-ergative, unlike Tíogall.

Verbs are negated with ''cha'' or ''chan'' which is borrowed from Camalic (whereas Tíogall uses ''ní''-L). In the past tense, ''cha do''-L is used.

Bhadhagha is a head-initial, topic-comment language with V2 order. It is wh-in-situ, unlike Tíogall.

Bhadhagha uses native or Camalic words where Tíogall uses Netagin words; for example the word for school is ''suar-dùbhach'' 'house of learning' in Bhadhagha and ''tarsúdh'' in Tíogall. An example of a Camalic word in Bhadhagha is ''eafhad'' (cat), where Tíogall has ''zár'' from Netagin.