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===Verbs===
===Verbs===
Verbs are perhaps the most heavily used part of speech in the Adwan language as a whole, and aside from a few crucial inflections, follow a relatively simple agglutivative structure. Verbs all end in the same infinitive ending of -an. In finite forms, verbs are inflected according to person and number (these inflections are simultaneously structurally distinct but not phonemically separable), tense (where the present tense indicative, the marker is null), mood (indicative vs conditional vs subjunctive), and aspect (perfective vs imperfective). Verbs have a large inventory of constructions, and are thus divided into simple constructions, consisting of verb conjugations acting on the same stem as the verb, and into compound constructions, which are the verbal forms associated with certain morphisms. Verb endings are given in pairs of the form a/b, where a = imperfective aspect, b = perfective aspect.
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The vowel morphisms on verbs determines which combinations of vowels determine which grammatical meaning. In our case, we can view vowel morphisms as permutations of vowel phonemes, denoted by an asterisk. So if 'u' were to get mapped to the vowel 'e', then we would write u* = e. Below is a table of the vowel morphism used.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! vowel (U) !! new vowel (U*) !! identity
|-
| a || o || a* = o
|-
| e || y || e* = y
|-
| i || i || i* = i
|-
| o || w || o* = w
|-
| u || e || u* = e
|-
| w || a || w* = a
|-
| y || u || y * = u
|}
 
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=====Present=====
=====Present=====
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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