Riagi: Difference between revisions

*Past ({{smallcaps|pst}}) '''pōa-'''

*Present ({{smallcaps|prs}}) '''ø-'''

*Future ({{smallcaps|fut}}) '''kki-'''

*Gnomic ({{smallcaps|gno}}) '''ano-'''

*External

**Permissive ({{smallcaps|prm}}): Used to express permission

**Requisitive ({{smallcaps|req}}): Used to express requests or suggestions

**Compulsory ({{smallcaps|cls}}): Used to express orders and commands

**Impositive ({{smallcaps|ims}}): Used to express expectations or imposed actions

*Internal

**Promissory ({{smallcaps|pms}}): Used to express for promises oaths or threats

**Desiderative ({{smallcaps|des}}): Used to express willingness or intent

**Aspirative ({{smallcaps|asp}}): Used to express hopes, fears or wishes

**Necessitative ({{smallcaps|nec}}): Used to express needs or obligations

*Evidential

**Factual ({{smallcaps|fac}}): Indicates the certainty of the action

**Probable ({{smallcaps|pbl}}): Indicates the likelyhood of the action

**Improbable ({{smallcaps|ipb}}): Indicates the unlikelyhood of the action

**Potential ({{smallcaps|ptn}}): Indicates the posibility of the action

;Negating the main verb

:''You may not-work''

;Negating the coverb

:Negates the TAM but not the action

:''You may-not work''

 

The coverb needs not to be fully inflected, one may only negate mood, tense/aspect or both, allowing for sentences like ''I didn't use to need to take my medicines'' by negating only the tense on ''I used need to take my medicines''

 

==== ''Non-Finite forms'' ====

;Infinitive

:Dictionary form

:Used when employing the verb as a noun

 

;Gerund