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The auxiliary ''bi'' is used with predicates that are verbs, existentials, adjectives and adjuncts. ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary.
The auxiliary ''bi'' is used with predicates that are verbs, existentials, adjectives and adjuncts. ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary.


Ăn Yidiș reorganized older Irish tenses into the tense-aspect system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective) which is marked using the form of ''bi'' and the preverbal aspect marker. The auxiliary controls the tense and the preposition controls the aspect:
Ăn Yidiș innovated the tense-aspect system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective) using the form of ''bi'' and the preverbal aspect marker. The auxiliary controls the tense and the preposition controls the aspect:


* to ș' ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel)
* to ș' ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel)