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=== Verbs === | === Verbs === | ||
Modern Coptic has a copious amount of verb tenses | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
!Tense | |||
!Explanation | |||
!English | |||
|- | |||
!Infinitive | |||
|Infinitive | |||
|to V | |||
|- | |||
!Present | |||
|Main present tense | |||
|I(‘m) V(-ing) | |||
|- | |||
!Future | |||
|Main future tense | |||
|I’ll V | |||
|- | |||
!Imperfect | |||
|Ongoing action in the past | |||
|I was V-ing | |||
|- | |||
!Future Imperfect | |||
|Ongoing action in the future | |||
|I will be V-ing | |||
|- | |||
!Past | |||
|Main past tense / Perfect | |||
|I V-ed / I have V-ed | |||
|- | |||
!Habitual | |||
|Habitual (present) tense | |||
|I normally V | |||
|- | |||
!Past Imperfect | |||
|Ongoing action before a finished action | |||
|I had V-ed | |||
|- | |||
!Habitual Imperfect | |||
|Habitual past tense | |||
|I used to V | |||
|- | |||
!Jussive | |||
|Giving orders (not 2nd person) | |||
|I should V | |||
|- | |||
!Subordinate Present | |||
|Subordinate clauses in the present | |||
|that I V | |||
|- | |||
!Subordinate Future | |||
|Subordinate clauses in the future | |||
|that I’ll V | |||
|- | |||
!Subordinate Past | |||
|Subordinate clauses in the past | |||
|that I V-ed | |||
|- | |||
!Subordinate Habitual | |||
|Subordinate clauses in the habitual | |||
|that I normally V | |||
|- | |||
!Conditional | |||
|Conditional tense | |||
|I would V | |||
|- | |||
!Conjunctive | |||
|Same time as the main clause | |||
|also I V/V-ed | |||
|- | |||
!Resultative | |||
|Result of the main clause | |||
|so I V/V-ed | |||
|- | |||
!Imperative | |||
|Giving orders (only 2nd person) | |||
|V! | |||
|} | |||