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*Agreement: Person/number/gender of participants. | *Agreement: Person/number/gender of participants. | ||
*Mood: Realis and irrealis. The irrealis is used for imperatives, wishes, purpose clauses, and possible future events. | *Mood: Realis and irrealis. The irrealis is used for imperatives, wishes, purpose clauses, and possible future events. | ||
Binyan and voice are realized with stem changes, and agreement inflection is realized by attaching affixes which change the stem in a regular manner. Notably, Netagin has no tense or aspect forms; aspect is more of a lexical feature, and tense is inferred through context. | Binyan and voice are realized with stem changes, and agreement inflection is realized by attaching affixes which change the stem in a regular manner. Notably, Netagin has no tense or aspect forms; aspect is more of a lexical feature, and tense is inferred through context or explicitly through time expressions such as "yesterday", "a moment ago", or "later". | ||
*The nonfinite forms are: | *The nonfinite forms are: | ||