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! Montaigne  
! Montaigne  
| yayak|| yay || tay || Kahno côri yay cire/ciri itá || The boy went up the mountain.||
| yayak|| yay || tay || Kahno côri yay cire/ciri itá || The boy went up the mountain.||
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===== Aspect =====
The verb, in contrast to the copula, encodes aspect with clitics that attach to the end of the word.  If a coverb appears, the aspect marker will cliticize to the coverb.  Nankôre possesses several aspect markers, as illustrated in the following table:
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg"
|-
! !! Aspect  Marker!!  Meaning
|-
! style=""| Perfect
| -Ø||
|-
! style=""| Semelfective
| =no|| completed in one single motion/act, e.g. hit
|-
! style=""| Simple Imperfect
| =ro||
|-
! style=""| Durative/Repetitive
| =nahoyra, =noyra|| several times
|-
! style=""| Habitative
| =(h)osma, =sma|| often
|-
! style=""| Factive
| =yosir|| (general truth statement, e.g. "The sun rises in the east")
|-
! style=""| Continuative
| =namporo|| to continue
|-
! style=""| Inceptive
| =otah|| to begin
|-
! style=""| Cessative
| =ciri|| to stop
|-
! style=""| Terminative
| =ruykáno|| to finish
|-
! style=""| Incipient
| =kara|| about to
|-
! style=""| Approximative
| =tontoro|| almost, nearly
|-
! style=""| Frequentative
| =nokori, -(o)nkori|| often
|-
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