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...rm lets the agent unspecified, which conveys a grammatical aspect of the ''gnomic'' and ''habitual'' types. E.g. if the actor is mentioned (be it through the '''''· Slot 1: Tense/Aspect'''''

...a full noun phrase. One is in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomic_aspect gnomic utterances], and the other is to indicate that the subject of a transitive =====Gnomic Utterances=====

...class'' of the verb, which indicates the vowel used in person-number-tense/aspect conjugation ([[#Thematic anaptyxis|→Thematic anaptyxis]]). Because the ...onjugate by apophony to express voice, and by suffixation to express tense-aspect. Verbs do not conjugate for mood, which is instead expressed through modal

...ticles (featured at the beginning of a VP) that denote conditional, telic, gnomic, permissive, obligative, and potential moods. There are a number of suffixe ====Aspect====

...n event, a state, or a change in state. It is heavily conjugated to tense, aspect and mood. There exists two grammatical classes of verbs, namely t-class and ====Aspect====

...bgroup, called adjectival verbs, can act similarly to finite verbs in this aspect. ...he irrealis form. All of these forms can be further divided into [[w:Tense–aspect–mood|TAM]] categories. Each form receive a different marking, represented

Verbs agree in person with both agent and patient, and mark aspect and mood. In verbs with modifiable tone imperfective aspect is marked with falling tone; in some regions verbs with modifiable lexical

...22 light verbs from which all others are derived. They inflect for tense, aspect, mood, voice, patient number and gender, and other optional categories. =====Tense, aspect, and mood=====

...ed for grammatical purposes (mainly number, genitive case and imperfective aspect). In the native script the following are marked on the vowel. *''soi'' (on) to emphasize the surface aspect

...mpounds: '''mango''' 'who' and '''manu''' 'what'. '''Ma''' has no inherent aspect, meaning that it may just as easily ask for a short-term nominal descriptio ===Tense and aspect===

There are three main aspect marks (whose use is entirely optional): gnomic (for general truths), perfective and imperfective. Similarly, there are thr Triband languages are far more heterogeneous in this aspect, with base-4, base-8 and base-12 being nearly tied as the most common numer

===Tense and aspect=== ====Gnomic====

...ok''" - the direct object may be left unmentioned, granted that the gnomic aspect is used. This implies the cooking of something, instead of directly mention ...ion of this number into the language was meant to tie in with the genereic aspect of the verbs. In [[w:English language|English]], nouns of this kind most of

...mpounds: '''mango''' 'who' and '''manu''' 'what'. '''Ma''' has no inherent aspect, meaning that it may just as easily ask for a short-term nominal descriptio ===Tense and aspect===

...re is a continuous particle that indicates that the verb has a continuous "aspect". The particle "aklá" is placed before the verb, for example: ====Gnomic====

...te that some moods do only distinguish between imperfective and perfective aspect. ...'' nouns, which denote a process, the nominalized infinitive is often more gnomic or perfective in meaning (''dhūlti baucanah'' makes sense, meaning "learni

====Tense, mood, aspect==== ! rowspan="2" | Gnomic !! Indicative

Verbs are marked for person, number, tense, aspect, mood and voice. The marking of the verbs happens according to the followin ...prefix|| √{{sc|verb}} || Conjugation affix for person, number and mood || Aspect marker suffix

|• '''hua''' || 'to be always ...', 'to be eternally ...' || [GNOMIC] || [NOM] is eternally […] Marking of time (tense and aspect) is not obligatory in Ngolu and may always be left up to context.

|• '''hua''' || 'to be always ...', 'to be eternally ...' || [GNOMIC] || [NOM] is eternally […] Marking of time (tense and aspect) is not obligatory in Ngolu and may always be left up to context. For our p