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*« ''Face'' tas giwoures ! » ("''Do'' your homework!") | *« ''Face'' tas giwoures ! » ("''Do'' your homework!") | ||
*« ''Faceds'' vostrs giwoures eimbl. » ("''Do'' your (pl.) homework together.") | *« ''Faceds'' vostrs giwoures eimbl. » ("''Do'' your (pl.) homework together.") | ||
====Tenses and aspects==== | |||
The indicative mood has five "simple" ([[w:synthetic language|synthetic]]) tense-aspect forms, conveying three tenses (times of action) (future, present, and past) and two aspects (fabrics of time) ([[w:perfective aspect|perfective]], conveying an action viewed in its entirety without its time frame being considered in more detail, and [[imperfective aspect|imperfective]], conveying an action that occurs repeatedly or continuously). Note however that the synthetic imperfect has been mostly relegated to very literary contexts. The tense-aspect forms of the indicative mood in Britainese are called the present (''lis presents'': present tense, imperfective aspect), the simple past (''lis passadh sempl'': past tense, perfective aspect), the [[imperfect]] (''lis passadh emperfeit'': past tense, imperfective aspect), the future (''lis futúros'': future tense, unspecified aspect), and the conditional (''lis conditionnals'': future-in-past tense, unspecified aspect). The use of the various tense forms is described in the following table: | |||
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! present | |||
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*like in English, used to describe habitual, recurring, and "always" true events | |||
*unlike in English, used to describe ongoing current action | |||
*unlike in English, used to describe events that started in the past and affect the present (i.e., most cases where simple perfect is used in English) | |||
*sometimes used to describe upcoming events | |||
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*« W'''am'' jovar desportes. » ("I ''like'' to play sports.") | |||
*« Agour, eu ''stoi'' en Londein. » ("Now, I ''am'' in London. ") | |||
*« El ''viv'' en Lodhess poss 15 ain. » ("He ''has lived''/''has been living'' in Paris for 15 years. ") | |||
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! simple past<br>(past perfective) | |||
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*used to describe past events in a [[perfective aspect|perfective]] or [[aorist aspect]]; that is, with a sense of completion, with a definite beginning and end | |||
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*« Il ''nasci'' en 1930 et mori en 1998. » ("He ''was born'' in 1930 and ''died'' in 1998.") | |||
*« Her, el ''plu''. » ("Yesterday, it ''rained''.") | |||
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! imperfect<br>(past imperfective) | |||
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*used to describe past events or situations in an [[imperfective aspect]]; that is, ongoing, repetitive, or habitual past events or situations | |||
*used mostly in very literary contexts | |||
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*« Quand w{{'}}''er'' joun, eu ''viveu'' en Londein. » ("When I ''was'' young, I ''lived'' in London.") | |||
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! simple future | |||
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*used to describe future events | |||
*mostly the same as in English, except that it is a simple (one-word) tense in French | |||
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*« Euki le ''ferai'' demain. » ("I ''will do'' it tomorrow.") | |||
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! conditional (future-in-past) | |||
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*used in an apodosis when the protasis is contrary to fact (in the imperfect) | |||
*used to describe a past event from the standpoint of an even-earlier event | |||
*mostly the same as in English, except that it is a simple (one-word) tense in French | |||
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*« Si je le savais, je te le ''dirais''. » ("If I knew it, I ''would tell'' you.") | |||
*« Ils disaient que je ''réussirais''. » ("They said that I ''would succeed''.") | |||
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