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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Häskä verbs are highly inflected; they inflect for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement. | Häskä verbs are highly inflected; they inflect for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement. | ||
In the imperative, the subject is omitted. The cohortative ('let's VERB') uses the syntax ''VERB ya-tsa'', lit. 'VERB with us (exc)'. | |||
Verbs and adjectives are actually predicate nouns, so a patient trigger verb can be used as a patient noun just by placing a case marker in front of it. | |||
====Aspect==== | |||
Aspect inflection uses a combination of prefixes and reduplication. | |||
Reduplicant uses 1st consonant (''F'') or last consonant (''L'') | |||
*imperfective/stative = unmarked | |||
*perfective = unmarked for some verbs but marked with ''em-'' for others | |||
*prospective = ''hef-'' (closest equivalent of future tense) | |||
*momentane = ''bla-'' | |||
*progressive = ''ăL-'' | |||
*gnomic = ''FăL-'' | |||
*frequentative = ''eNFă-'' | |||
*inchoative/inceptive = ''oLă-'' | |||
*graduative = ''tăFa-'' | |||
====Intensive==== | |||
*''thu-'' = intensive prefix | |||
====Voice affixes==== | |||
Voice affixes are obsolete in Rhythoed. | |||
*''‹ăc›'' = Dynamic passive | |||
*''‹ră›'', ''‹wă›'' = Stative passive | |||
*''‹ăb›'' = Reflexive | |||
===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== | ||
*yə- = adjectivizer | *yə- = adjectivizer | ||