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====Tense-Aspect-Mood====

=====Basic TAMs=====

The basic TAMs, marked with a combination of tone, suffixes and prefixes, are:

:''See also [[{{PAGENAME}}/Verbal subparadigms|tables for conjugation subparadigms]].''

The basic TAM markers are fused with subject markers. The basic TAMs, marked with a combination of tone, suffixes and prefixes, are:

*Imperative

*Present

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*Jussive

'''Note on agreement.''' Collectives of animate nouns take animate plural agreement; collectives of inanimate nouns take non-animate singular agreement.

Shown below are the final and combining forms of subject suffixes of the three conjugation paradigms: the first conjugation, with null thematic vowel, the second conjugation, with thematic vowel ''a'', and the third conjugation, with thematic vowel ''e''.

To form the passive, the paradigms ''-ī́n'', ''-áin'', ''-ī́n'' are replaced by ''-yréin'', ''-aréin'', ''-erī́n'', respectively.

The citation form of a verb is the 1st person jussive. The three major conjugations are correlated with the semantics of the verb:

*1st conjugation ''-ī́n'' < ''*-īn=ʔ'': primary verbs.

**The above contains ''-iī́n'' verbs (''*j''-stems, realized as pseudo-thematic vowel ''i'').

*2nd conjugation ''-áin'' < ''*-a-īn=ʔ'': typically denominative, factitive or transitive verbs.

*3rd conjugation ''-ī́n'' < ''*-e-īn=ʔ'': typically dynamic or reflexive verbs.

The zero theme vowel conjugation often contains irregularities from interactions between the final consonant and the ending (in fact some alteration occurs for all consonants except ''m'', ''r'' and ''ch'', unless the stem-terminating consonant is part of a cluster) and hence includes [[{{PAGENAME}}/Verbal subparadigms|many subconjugations]].

'''NB.''' The downstep position is preserved upon addition of the object suffix.

======Imperative======

The imperative is used to issue orders; it is negated with ''ham''.

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 ====Tense-Aspect-Mood====
 =====Basic TAMs=====
-The basic TAMs, marked with a combination of tone, suffixes and prefixes, are:
+:''See also [[{{PAGENAME}}/Verbal subparadigms|tables for conjugation subparadigms]].''
+The basic TAM markers are fused with subject markers. The basic TAMs, marked with a combination of tone, suffixes and prefixes, are:
 *Imperative
 *Present
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 *Jussive
+'''Note on agreement.''' Collectives of animate nouns take animate plural agreement; collectives of inanimate nouns take non-animate singular agreement.
+Shown below are the final and combining forms of subject suffixes of the three conjugation paradigms: the first conjugation, with null thematic vowel, the second conjugation, with thematic vowel ''a'', and the third conjugation, with thematic vowel ''e''.
+To form the passive, the paradigms ''-ī́n'', ''-áin'', ''-ī́n'' are replaced by ''-yréin'', ''-aréin'', ''-erī́n'', respectively.
+The citation form of a verb is the 1st person jussive. The three major conjugations are correlated with the semantics of the verb:
+*1st conjugation ''-ī́n'' < ''*-īn=ʔ'': primary verbs.
+**The above contains ''-iī́n'' verbs (''*j''-stems, realized as pseudo-thematic vowel ''i'').
+*2nd conjugation ''-áin'' < ''*-a-īn=ʔ'': typically denominative, factitive or transitive verbs.
+*3rd conjugation ''-ī́n'' < ''*-e-īn=ʔ'': typically dynamic or reflexive verbs.
+The zero theme vowel conjugation often contains irregularities from interactions between the final consonant and the ending (in fact some alteration occurs for all consonants except ''m'', ''r'' and ''ch'', unless the stem-terminating consonant is part of a cluster) and hence includes [[{{PAGENAME}}/Verbal subparadigms|many subconjugations]].
+'''NB.''' The downstep position is preserved upon addition of the object suffix.
 ======Imperative======
 The imperative is used to issue orders; it is negated with ''ham''.