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Celtic influence. Unlike in "normal" Germanic languages, the past participle is not used grammatically. | Celtic influence. Unlike in "normal" Germanic languages, the past participle is not used grammatically. | ||
====Progressive==== | ====Progressive==== | ||
Progressive tenses denote ongoing actions. The auxiliary ''bión'' is used (which carries the tense), and the object of the verb becomes the possessor of the verbal noun, which is put at the end. | |||
* ''Ik em at þas apels jaten.'' "I am eating the apple." (lit. I am at the apple's eating, like Irish ''Táim ag ith an úill'') | * ''Ik em at þas apels jaten.'' "I am eating the apple." (lit. I am at the apple's eating, like Irish ''Táim ag ith an úill'') | ||
====Perfect==== | ====Perfect==== | ||
* ''Ik em after þas apels jaten.'' "I have eaten the apple." (lit. I am after the apple's eating, like Hiberno-English) | * ''Ik em after þas apels jaten.'' "I have eaten the apple." (lit. I am after the apple's eating, like Hiberno-English) | ||