Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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The past perfective or preterite is for events that were completed at some point in time in the past. It is marked with a separate set of subject markers from the present. | The past perfective or preterite is for events that were completed at some point in time in the past. It is marked with a separate set of subject markers from the present. | ||
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The | The imperfect indicates a background event or events that happened in the past frequently or over a period of time. Therefore it corresponds to past frequentative, habitual or progressive. The imperfect developed from the construction ''*ʔṇʔ- [{{sc|present}}]'', where ''*ʔṇʔ-'' was a past tense of the copula ''vācī́n''). The ''yn-'' 'augment' displays a number of special behaviors: | ||
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*assimilates to labials ''p b m'' | *assimilates to labials ''p b m'' | ||