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 ''Slot V''
+This slot is reserved for the tense marker and the habitual marker. The vowel in this slot receives the main stress of the verb and is therfore and important unit in every verbal structure. Since this slot has to be filled always, there is actuall no real tenseless verbal structure. However, the present habitual / generic marker serves as an aorist which is also used in laws and other time independent texts and rules.
+This table presents them:
+{| class = "bluetable lightbluebg"
++ tense marker
+!marker !! tense !! usage !! habitual version
+| -a- || present || present events occuring at the moment, on the day; events that started in the past and continue to the present moment || -aa-
+|-
+|| -e- || perfect || events that have occurred in the past and whose results are visible now || -ee- (rarely used)
+|-
+|| -ä- || preterite || past events that started and ended in the past; story telling: framework story || -ää-
+|-
+|| -i- || past preterite || events that happened in the past prior to another event || -ii-
+|-
+|| -o- || future || events that will take later, the next day, in the next year || -oo-
+|-
+|| -u- || future perfect || events that will be finished in the past. || -uu-
+|}