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*Past: PIE reduplicated perfect or root aorist | *Past: PIE reduplicated perfect or root aorist | ||
*Irrealis (source of the English subjunctive, including ''were''): sigmatic future. | *Irrealis (source of the English subjunctive, including ''were''): sigmatic future. | ||
*Stative (the source of the English past): a tenseless form like the Akkadian stative. Originally a deverbal noun; formed with the o-grade (deriving nouns in PIE) for strongs, - | *Stative (the source of the English past): a tenseless form like the Akkadian stative. Originally a deverbal noun; formed with the o-grade (deriving nouns in PIE) for strongs, -ṫ from -tús (with random voicing) for weaks, (i)-ə from -ih2 for semistrongs. It was not a true finite verb form so it didn't take ''-se''. | ||
**Some modal verbs in English, such as ''can, will, shall, may, must, ought'', come from statives and thus are called stative-present verbs. | **Some modal verbs in English, such as ''can, will, shall, may, must, ought'', come from statives and thus are called stative-present verbs. | ||
*Active participle: -ənt | *Active participle: -ənt | ||
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! Stative | ! Stative | ||
| '' | | ''luṗəṫ'' || ''bhondh'' || ''choildhə'' | ||
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! Active part. | ! Active part. |
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