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==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||
===Conjugation=== | ===Conjugation=== | ||
The verb in Aeranir is primarily made of three parts: | The verb in Aeranir is primarily made of three parts: ''stem'', ''theme'', and ''ending'', with an optional forth category, the ''suffix'', for forming the perfective. The stem carries the semantic content of the word, and can also be conjugated to carry modal imformation. The theme describes how the stem interacts with the ending, and can also be changed, along with the stem and endings, to express a variety of different grammatical meanings. Endings indicate the voice, aspect, person, number, and gender of the most oblique argument in the DGA scheme. | ||
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The way in which a verb will conjugate can be determined from how it forms the following four constructions: the ''active idicative imperfective first person singular'', the ''active perfective participle'', the ''active optative imperfective first person singular'', and the ''active indicative perfective first person singular''. These four forms are refered to as a verb's ''reference forms''. They are often shortend to ''first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|1p.sg}}), ''perfective participle'' ({{Smallcaps|pfv.ptcp}}), ''optative first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|opt.1p.sg}}), and ''perfective first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|pfv.1p.sg}}) respectively. | |||
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