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Verbs are one of the three main parts of speech in Marêngil.
Verbs are one of the three main parts of speech in Marêngil.
====Tense====
* An infinitive verb will always end with vowel followed by a voiceless velar stop (k).
* Infinitive verbs generally do not have any long vowels in them because of the following reason.
* The past tense is shown by an added "-a" in the infinitive, and a lengthening the vowel of the final syllable for perfective and imperfective.
* The future tense is shown by a suffixation of -lèsh, meaning "up (and out)" since the concept of time is an movement upwards.
* The imperfective and perfective use an auxiliary which became suffixed and altered. They use the verbs ''sájak' '', "to go" and ''sálik' '', "to complete" respectively.
{| class="greentable lightgreenbg" style="width: 300px; text-align:center;"
! colspan=5|Tense
|-
! colspan=2|
!INF
!IMPF
!PRFV
|-
! colspan=2|Present
| colspan=2| -k'
| -ka
|-
! rowspan=3| Past
! General
| -ka
| -säk'
| -lïk'
|-
! Recent
| -kaj
| -skaj
| -likï
|-
! Distant
| -kal
| -skal
| -kla
|-
! colspan=2|Future
| -lèsh
| -lash
| -lish
|-
! colspan=2|Hypothetical
| -ät
| -sakä
| -likä
|-
|}


====Aspect====
====Aspect====