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 | Note that ''mă nach'' 'if not (real)' or ''năn nach'' 'if not (irreal)' is used where 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) | ||