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**Imperfect - NPRF: Ongoing or habitual actions. | **Imperfect - NPRF: Ongoing or habitual actions. | ||
*'''Mood (na Puesyn)'''. There are two grammatical moods: | *'''Mood (na Puesyn)'''. There are two grammatical moods: | ||
**Realis (na zra puesyn): The action is real and concrete. | **Realis - REAL (na zra puesyn): The action is real and concrete. | ||
**Irrealis (na sihys puesyn): The action is somehow hypothetical or potentially counterfactual. The reason why the moods are called "realis" and "irrealis" rather than "indicative" and "subjunctive," which arguably is what they actually are since they are mediated by inflection, is because the irrealis used to be indicated by an affix in Old Common. During the breakdown of the gender system, the abstract gender agreement form of the auxiliary was repurposed to indicate the irrealis, but the terminology used to refer to it was not updated.[https://webconlang.infiniterecursion.ca/article/common/47/] | **Irrealis - IRREAL (na sihys puesyn): The action is somehow hypothetical or potentially counterfactual. The reason why the moods are called "realis" and "irrealis" rather than "indicative" and "subjunctive," which arguably is what they actually are since they are mediated by inflection, is because the irrealis used to be indicated by an affix in Old Common. During the breakdown of the gender system, the abstract gender agreement form of the auxiliary was repurposed to indicate the irrealis, but the terminology used to refer to it was not updated.[https://webconlang.infiniterecursion.ca/article/common/47/] | ||
The most important of these categories is valence. There are actually five verbal auxiliaries - one for each valence pattern. Each auxiliary then inflects for tense, aspect and mood in a separate conjugational paradigm. | The most important of these categories is valence. There are actually five verbal auxiliaries - one for each valence pattern. Each auxiliary then inflects for tense, aspect and mood in a separate conjugational paradigm. | ||