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 *'''z ž ȝ''' /z ʒ ʁ/
 *'''w l r y''' /w l r j/
-Coda ''p t c č k'' were glottally reinforced: ''φasīt'' 'simple' /pʰa'si:t’/ was pronounced [pʰasi:ʔt’].
 ===Vowels===
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 ====Independent====
 *1sg: ''ʔanė́χ''
-*2sg: ''ʔáθθa'' (m), ''ʔáθθi'' (f)
+*2sg: ''ʔáθθa'' (m), ''ʔéθθi'' (f)
 *3sg: ''hū'' (m), ''hī'' (f)
 *1pl: ''náħnė''
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 *3pl: ''-um''/''-hum'' (m), ''-in''/''-hin'' (f)
-Object pronouns immediately follow the verb and are written with a hyphen in native script: for example, ''xabbḗr-nī'' 'he made me great'.
+Object suffixes immediately follow the verb, and certain vowels are inserted before affixes that begin in a consonant:
+* 1s perfect: ''žaχárθ'''u'''χa'' 'I remember you'
+* 3ms perfect: ''χabbḗr'''a'''nī'' 'he has made me great'
+* prefix conjugation forms with no suffix: ''yuχabbḗr'''u'''nī'' 'he makes me great'; ''χabbḗr'''u'''nī'' 'make me great!'
 ====Inflected prepositions====
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 Togarmite finite verbs have 7 morphological tenses:
-*past: past action
+*perfect: like the English perfect
 *present: present, continuing or habitual action
 *future: future action or completed in the future; gnomic tense