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The perfect is formed periphrastically; the preterite participle (for a completed action) or the imperfect participle (for cumulative progress) is used as a predicate, with either the pronouns or the conjugated forms of the copula ''vā́cī́n''. | The perfect is formed periphrastically; the preterite participle (for a completed action) or the imperfect participle (for cumulative progress) is used as a predicate, with either the pronouns or the conjugated forms of the copula ''vā́cī́n''. | ||
Unlike in English the perfect can be used in imperative sentences: | |||
:'''''Echrasárlech ðinōrúod vā́c in stúmsyn.''''' | |||
:<small>trap-PST.PART-SG<3PL.M animal-PL.DEF be-IMP.2SG until return-INF-1SG</small> | |||
:''Trap the animals by the time I return.'' | |||
======Inceptive====== | ======Inceptive====== | ||