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→‎Verb: dhe- "build, make, set", didhánna< REPL-dhe- + ā + -nna, wā- "going, travel", wānna "time" < gwānna < gwāmna

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 ====Verb====
-The Aurónian verb is conjugated for person, number, and tense. The standard language is no longer inflected for moods besides the imperative but instead uses specific particles to fill this role.
+The Aurónian verb is conjugated for person, number, mood, and tense. In the prescribed standard, the verb is no longer inflected for moods beyond the imperative. All other moods are instead formed by using specific postverbal particles. There are few fully irregular verbs, but many minor irregularities resulting from a conflux of analogical levelling, sound changes, and prior prescriptivism.
-There are dialectal differences regarding how the tenses are built, shfiting between synthetic and periphrastic constructions. In rural areas it is not uncommon to hear ''lúsann'' 'I shall light' for the future tense of the verb {{term|lúcadh}} 'to light, to illuminate' instead of the periphrastic ''bhú lúcadh''.
+One major dialectal difference in Aurónian is found in the construction of tenses (''didhánna úánnár''). There is a multitude of ways to form both the future and the past tense, depending on whether or not one is using the synthetic form of the verb.
+=====Present tense=====
 The present tense is formed simply for all regular thematic verbs by adding the relevant person suffixes.
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 |third pl.||lúcannad
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-For the future tense, in addition to using an inflected verb form, one can also use a construction using ''bhúi'' (past & future form of the verb ''ísan'' 'to be') and the infinitive.
+=====Future tense=====
+There are two main strategies for the formation of the future tense: '''future I''' ('synthetic') and '''future II''' ('bhúi-construction').
+The basis of '''future I''' is formed morphologically by affixing ''-s-'' (or ''-r-'' in some cases) to the naked stem and then the appropriate person endings.
+This future form is able to stand alone in the first position of a sentence and thus behaves word-order-wise just the same as a fully inflected present tense verb.
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