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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-'' | 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-'' prefix displays a number of special behaviors: | ||
*assimilates to labials ''p b m'' | *assimilates to labials ''p b m'' | ||