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 TolsianR's tense system is divided into past, present, and future, which are encoded in the conjugation of the verbs in the indicative mode.
-=====''Aspect''=====
+=====''Grammatical Aspect''=====
-The progressive aspect is expressed with the verb "to be" used as an auxiliary and so, conjugated accordingly to the subject, followed by the present participle of the verb in the progressive aspect.
+A distinction between perfective and imperfective aspects is marked morphologically in the past tense, while other aspectualities, such as progressive and perfect, are marked with auxiliaries : progressive with the auxiliary ''cƿƃ'' "to be" and the present participle, and perfect with the auxiliary ''vuƃ'' "to have" and the past participle.
-In the past tense, conjugation encodes some aspectualities, with a perfective past and an imperfective past.
+Some aspectual values of the different morphological verb forms :
-The past participle can also be used to express some aspectualities, corresponding to
+<poem>
+Indicative present : neutral, habitual
+Indicative Imperfect Past : habitual, continuous
+Indicative Perfect Past : perfective
+Indicative Future : neutral, habitual, inchoative (usually followed by "now" or something indicating it's going to happen very soon)
+Conditional, Subjunctive : neutral, habitual. Also, they express a present tense by default.
+Absolute : gnomic
+</poem>
 =====''Mode''=====