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**Divine gender inflection: ''Bodanan essä dutiik duutesnax cerra.'' (I'm reading the slowly written book fast.) | **Divine gender inflection: ''Bodanan essä dutiik duutesnax cerra.'' (I'm reading the slowly written book fast.) | ||
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In Aoma, there are ways for creating passive voices: | In Aoma, there are ways for creating passive voices: | ||
*'''1st Passive''' (Impersonal): Passive infinite and derived forms: ''rokke'' → '''''bu'''rokke'''m''''', ''nyhe'''s''''' → ''bunyhe'''m''''' | *'''1st Passive''' (Impersonal): Passive infinite and derived forms: ''rokke'' → '''''bu'''rokke'''m''''', ''nyhe'''s''''' → ''bunyhe'''m''''' | ||
**Present tense for general truths: ''Buefam ketixu.'' (Cities are lived in.) | **Present tense for general truths: ''Buefam ketixu.'' (Cities are lived in.) | ||
**Imperfective aspect | **Imperfective aspect may show current conditions (notice the IIa conjugation morpheme): ''Bu'''bo'''rokkem ogehixu bor.'' (Some people are running outside our house.) | ||
**Perfect aspect | **Perfect aspect may indicate how things used to be: ''Bu'''na'''kommam irrä.'' (Things used to be done well.) | ||
**Subjunctive mood for how things could be: ''Bu'''ef'''efam kyxu.'' (Here could one live.) | **Subjunctive mood for how things could be: ''Bu'''ef'''efam kyxu.'' (Here could one live.) | ||
*'''2nd Passive''' (Personal): Conjugated construct from the 1st passive (with accusative pronoun): ''Tolla'' → ''Butollam'' → ''Butollan.'' (I am seen.) and ''Sum'' → ''Busumum'' → ''Busumu musik.'' (Food is eaten.) | *'''2nd Passive''' (Personal): Conjugated construct from the 1st passive (with accusative pronoun): ''Tolla'' → ''Butollam'' → ''Butollan.'' (I am seen.) and ''Sum'' → ''Busumum'' → ''Busumu musik.'' (Food is eaten.) | ||
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**Gives verbs other meanings as well (deponent verbs): ''Jussa'' (make, cause to be) → ''Bujussam'' (become) → ''Bujussa shy tööreke.'' (He became angry.) | **Gives verbs other meanings as well (deponent verbs): ''Jussa'' (make, cause to be) → ''Bujussam'' (become) → ''Bujussa shy tööreke.'' (He became angry.) | ||
*'''Past passive participle''' with nouns (see non-finite forms above): ''Gehish '''gollanol''' irrä'' (Houses '''been built''' well.) | *'''Past passive participle''' with nouns (see non-finite forms above): ''Gehish '''gollanol''' irrä'' (Houses '''been built''' well.) | ||
====Auxiliary verbs==== | |||
such as ''jum'' "can" | |||
===Derivational Morphology=== | ===Derivational Morphology=== | ||