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Verbs are most often derived by pairing a light verb with either a following adjective or a preceding absolutive noun. When an absolutive noun is part of a complex verb, the clause's patient is instead marked as dative. | Verbs are most often derived by pairing a light verb with either a following adjective or a preceding absolutive noun. When an absolutive noun is part of a complex verb, the clause's patient is instead marked as dative. | ||
====Other | ====Other verb markers==== | ||
=====Tense, aspect, and mood===== | |||
A number of tense-aspect combinations are formed by compounding verbs. | A number of tense-aspect combinations are formed by compounding verbs. | ||
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Three mood suffixes can be applied to indicative verbs, subjunctive ''-кьи'', conditional ''-ссә'', and abilitative ''-ыъ''. | Three mood suffixes can be applied to indicative verbs, subjunctive ''-кьи'', conditional ''-ссә'', and abilitative ''-ыъ''. | ||
=====Converbs===== | |||
There are two converbs: relative/attributive ''-ды'' which puts no restriction on its verb's inflection, and simultaneous ''-цы'' which can only be applied to imperfective verbs. | There are two converbs: relative/attributive ''-ды'' which puts no restriction on its verb's inflection, and simultaneous ''-цы'' which can only be applied to imperfective verbs. | ||
=====Valency modifiers===== | |||
Verb valency can be increased and decreased with suffixes ''-гьэ'' and ''-ухъ'' respectively. These suffixes are also mostly used to derive new verbs, for example ''диркӏ, диркӏгьэ'' "to see, to look" and ''вӣд, вӣдухъ'' "to know, to think." | |||
=====Questions===== | =====Questions===== | ||