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=== The auxiliary ''bi'' === | === The auxiliary ''bi'' === | ||
The auxiliary ''bi'' is used with predicates that are verbs, existentials, adjectives and adjuncts. ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary. For verbs, this comes with the tense system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective). The auxiliary controls the tense and the preposition controls the aspect: | The auxiliary ''bi'' is used with predicates that are verbs, existentials, adjectives and adjuncts. ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary. | ||
Like Slavic languages, Ăn Yidiș has a perfective/imperfective aspect distinction; but this is marked analytically. For verbs, this comes with the tense system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective). The auxiliary controls the tense and the preposition controls the aspect: | |||
* to ș' ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel) | * to ș' ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel) | ||