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In the spoken language and in informal writing, when used as auxiliary for the perfect, the present singular forms of the copula are ''syim, syi, e''. | In the spoken language and in informal writing, when used as auxiliary for the perfect, the present singular forms of the copula are ''syim, syi, e''. | ||
Certain verbs may have irregular or multiple participles, most notably ''frálmi, farhálm'' (I become, became | Certain verbs may have irregular or multiple participles, most notably ''frálmi, farhálm'' (I become, became), which has the uncontracted participle ''farhelit'' as a standalone verb, but the historically contracted form ''frálit'' in its now obsolete usage as a passive auxiliary. Certain meanings may be conveyed by different roots and it is possible for a different root from the past and present to be preferred in the perfect: while "I do" and "I did" is most commonly ''purémi'' and ''parm'', the preferred participle for "done" is ''deˤt'' (actually cognate with English "do"), and not ''parit''. | ||
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