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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns. | Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs. | ||
Modern Netagin has an extreme form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense:'' When an ergative preposition is used, the sentence is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about a merger of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''si3fe'' 'after'. | |||
====Non-past==== | ====Non-past==== | ||
:'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.''''' | :'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.''''' | ||
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====Past==== | ====Past==== | ||
:'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun | :'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun yix.''''' | ||
:PRED cook.VN vegetables ERG.1SG | :PRED cook.VN vegetables ERG.1SG | ||
:''I cooked vegetables.'' | :''I cooked vegetables.'' | ||