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=== The auxiliary בּי ''bi'' === | === The auxiliary בּי ''bi'' === | ||
The auxiliary בּי ''bi'' is used with predicates that are verbs, existentials, adjectives | The auxiliary בּי ''bi'' is used with predicates that are | ||
* verbs, | |||
* existentials, | |||
* adjectives, | |||
* adjuncts. | |||
(בּי ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary.) | |||
Ăn Yidiș has innovated the tense-aspect system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective) using the form of בּי ''bi'' and the preverbal aspect marker. The auxiliary marks tense and the preposition marks perfectivity: | Ăn Yidiș has innovated the tense-aspect system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective) using the form of בּי ''bi'' and the preverbal aspect marker. The auxiliary marks tense and the preposition marks perfectivity: | ||