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The first thing you need to know about the Attian language and its verbs, is that there is '''no morphological distinction | The first thing you need to know about the Attian language and its verbs, is that there is '''no morphological distinction of tense'''. Whilst the language is rather agglutinative and very synthetic, temporal tense is marked through the addition of [[Attian#Adverbs and adjectives|adverbs]], which themselves in practice are nouns. There are a multitude of adverbs describing different tenses and points of occurrence, and many have several meanings. Below is a sample: | ||
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