User:Shadowlemur/draft/Cife/Conjugation

The vast majority (85%) of Cife verbs belong to the "ŷ-group" regular verbs; some others (12%) belong to the "p-group" regular verbs; and the remaining minority, mainly fundamental verbs such as "to be", are conjugated irregularly. Cife distinguishes between the singular (one), the paucal (few), and the plural (many), and the learner is immediately confronted with this when attempting to learn the commonly used subject and object pronouns. Consider the following summary table, which contains the most commonly used pronouns in Cife:

Person	Subject pronouns						Object pronouns
	Singular		Paucal		Plural		Singular		Paucal		Plural
	En.	Ci.	En.	Ci.	En.	Ci.	En.	Ci.	En.	Ci.	En.	Ci.
1st	I	Ëvŷ	We	Efem	We	Awem	Me	Adar	Us	Ogr	Us	Ogrı
2nd	You	Ÿvo	You	Ỳfo	You	Awo	You	Eìda	You	Sàwvas	You	Sàwvas
3rd	He/she/they	Wi	They	Fje	They	Wie	Him/her/them	Wid	Them	Fjel	Them	Fjedi

This is obviously a lot to take in; we strongly advise you practise using these, especially the subject pronouns, which are used most frequently. Read the following sentences, using the irregular verb beqiwv, which is conjugated identically for each number of subject pronouns:

English	Cife
I like apples [plural].	Ëvŷ beqow karòne.
You [s.] like these apples [paucal].	Ÿvo beqow amaj karònit.
We all [plural] like this apple.	Awem beqom aj karòna.
Ja and Sılrŷ [paucal] like these apples [paucal]	Ja se Sılrŷ beqis amaj karònit.
You and I [paucal] like apples.	Efem beqis karòne.
She likes him.	Wi beqow wid.
I like them [paucal].	Ëvŷ beqow fjel.
You [plural] like us [paucal].	Awo beqom ogr.