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 ====Non-finite forms====
-'''Gerund'''
+====Gerund=====
-*Base nouns or their abstract variants may serve as gerunds, which describe the action of doing, but otherwise they are created with the suffix ''(o)pi'' added to a verb root.
+*Base nouns or their abstract variants may serve as gerunds, which describe the action of doing, but otherwise they are created with the suffix ''(o)pi'' added to a verb root. The suffic also helps to distinguish the forms.
-'''Infinitives'''
+=====Infinitives=====
 *PRES ''-odi'', PST ''-oudi'', FUT ''ordi''
 *used with modal verbs
-*different moods may be used as well
+*subjunctive form created with duplication
-'''Participles'''
+=====Participles=====
-*Mentioned already in [[Sceptrian#Adjective|derivations]]
-**more!?
+Sceptrian participles work as adjectives. Following table shows which "case" and suffix the verb base (or gerund in formal register) takes.
+{|class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center"
+|+Present participles
+|-
+!
+!IPFV
+!PFV
+|-
+!Patientive (LAT)
+|''p''
+|''pi/pot''
+|-
+!Negative (LAT)
+|
+|''tip''
+|-
+!Active (INS)
+|rowspan="2"|''on''
+|''ompu''
+|-
+!Agentive (INS)
+|''empo''
+|}
+*Also the "requiring" (FUT) form LOC+''rt'' and "possible" (GNO) POS+''ta''
+*Past forms are created by adding ''i'' to the end: ''kephoni'' (was washing)
+*Future forms with ''or'': ''kephonor'' (will be  washing)
+*Examples shown already in [[Sceptrian#Adjective|derivations]]
 Relative form with word-order and prefix? + formal register particle