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The perfect construction is similar to Slavic: the past active participle is used with the pronoun (a so called ''esse''-perfect). The past participle, or the resultative participle, is etymologically the stative form, which became the perfect/past tense in Central Semitic. | The perfect construction is similar to Slavic: the past active participle is used with the present tense copula, the pronoun (a so called ''esse''-perfect). The past participle, or the resultative participle, is etymologically the stative form, which became the perfect/past tense in Central Semitic. | ||
====Pluperfect==== | ====Pluperfect==== | ||