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=== Verbs === | === Verbs === | ||
Modern Coptic has a copious amount of verb tenses | Modern Coptic has a copious amount of verb tenses, however only 2 tenses are ever inflected with affixes, the rest are made via auxiliary verbs | ||
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==== Base Form ==== | |||
Whenever the subject of the sentence is not a pronoun, the verb stops being inflected for person and number. Instead any auxiliary verb is putted in the "base form" and moved before the subject. | |||
naf woom - he was eating | |||
nare pejoot woom - the father was eating | |||