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-A tense inflection table (Grekelin has 4 tenses: Present, Past, Past Continuous and Future. One interesting feature that is inherited all the way from [[w:Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] is the [[w: Indo-European ablaut|ablaut system]] which is used especially in the past tenses instead of suffixes.
+A tense inflection table (Grekelin has 4 tenses: Present, Aorist,  and Future. One interesting feature that is inherited all the way from [[w:Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] is the [[w: Indo-European ablaut|ablaut system]] which is used especially in the past tenses instead of suffixes.
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 |+ Verb tenses in Grekelin
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-!            !! Present  !! Past Perfect !! Past Imperfect !! Future
+!            !! Present  !! Aorist !! Imperfect !! Future
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 | 1st person || Peió     || Ipeia    || Ipeiamane    || Enna Peiso
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+Additional tenses (Such as the perfect and the pluperfect and many others) are often found especially in colloquial speech, in a way similar to English (Standard '''Ipeia''' (I made) vs Colloquial '''Peio eo''' (I have made), literally "I made I have").
 ==Geographic Distribution and Demographics==