Verse:Irta (Old)/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions
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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 preverbal aspect marker marks other aspectual information such as 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 preverbal aspect marker marks other aspectual information such as perfectivity. | ||
Note that ''mă nach'' 'if not' is used whenever Irish would use ''mura''. | Note that ''mă nach'' 'if not' is used whenever Irish would use ''mura''. The two senses of the Irish conjunction ''nach'' (NEG.COMP or NEG.REL) are also distinguished: ''gu nach'' (complementizer) and ''ă nach'' (relativizer). | ||
* t' e ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel) | * t' e ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel) | ||
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* vă e ă(g) = past imperfective or present conditional | * vă e ă(g) = past imperfective or present conditional | ||
* vă e ņey = pluperfect or past conditional | * vă e ņey = pluperfect or past conditional | ||
* bey e ă(g) = future | * bey e ă(g) = future: | ||
* bey e ney = future perfective | * bey e ney = future perfective | ||
* răv e ă(g) = jussive impfv. ('may he.../let him...') | * răv e ă(g) = jussive impfv. ('may he.../let him...') | ||