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===Verbs===
===Verbs===
Windermere verbs inflect for mood, aspect, and trigger/voice, but not for tense. (Daughter languages use periphrastic constructions for tense, and use aspect and trigger affixes derivationally.)  
Windermere verbs inflect for mood, aspect, and trigger/voice, but not for tense. (Daughter languages use periphrastic constructions for tense, and use aspect and trigger affixes derivationally.) Adjectives behave almost idenitcally to verbs but they cannot take triggers and they cannot take the imperative by themselves.
 
The trigger system is a Tagalog-style trigger system, with the focus on the direct case argument.
The trigger system is a Tagalog-style trigger system, with the focus on the direct case argument.
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