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====Late Modern declension==== | ====Late Modern declension==== | ||
The Late Modern language has drastically restructured the verbal system, levelling both persons and numbers into a more regular system, and reinnovating the participles. | The Late Modern language has drastically restructured the verbal system, levelling both persons and numbers into a more regular system, and reinnovating the participles. | ||
In addition, tense has become more marked with the use of ''duén'' "to do" prefixed before the verb (de- for the past, from fossilised doublet ''dién'' "to have done, to have experience doing", and do- optionally for the imperative). | |||
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! Past-passive | ! Past-passive | ||
| de-geuná (de-gebaná) | | de-geuná (de-gebaná, -én) | ||
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! Present !! Singular !! Plural | ! Present !! Singular !! Plural | ||
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The future tense is marked with the fully inflected auxiliary verb ''escolan ~ escoran'', although it too is being transformed into a non-inflecting future prefix ''co(r)- ~ jo(r)-'', with the markedly colloquial form ''cho(r)-''. | |||
For example: | |||
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! Translation !! Formal !! Colloquial | |||
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| You(.PL) will give me it || Esbe escolaces mes za geban || Ombe mes za chor-gebaces | |||
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| We will have it || Os escolos za ejan || On za chor-ejos | |||
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| I will drag it || Y escolo za dreyan || Y za cho'-dreyo, y za co-dreyo (?) | |||
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| I will drag it || Y escolo za teuyan || Y za chor-teuyo, y za cho-teuyo (?) | |||
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