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The Aurónian verb is conjugated for person, number, mood, and tense. In the prescribed standard, the verb is no longer inflected for moods beyond the imperative. All other moods are instead formed by using specific postverbal particles. There are few fully irregular verbs, but many minor irregularities resulting from a conflux of analogical levelling, sound changes, and prior prescriptivism.

 

One major dialectal difference in Aurónian is found in the construction of tenses (''didhánna úánnár''). There is a multitude of ways to form both the future and the past tense, depending on whether or not one is using the synthetic form of the verb.

 

There are two main strategies for the formation of the future tense: '''future I''' ('synthetic') and '''future II''' ('bhúi-construction').

 

The basis of '''future I''' is formed morphologically by affixing ''-s-'' (or ''-r-'' in some cases) to the naked stem and then the appropriate person endings.

This future form is able to stand alone in the first position of a sentence and thus behaves word-order-wise just the same as a fully inflected present tense verb.