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 =====Compound tenses=====
 *Present progressive: Imperfect (minus suffixes and with final accent) + Perfect of ''-(ah)alaw'' - e.g. ''yikeéd(ah)alaw'' "he is walking/going".
-**This is derived from the defective verb ''halaw'' "he is present" (notice that it has present meaning despite the perfect form)
+**This is derived from the defective verb ''halaw'' "he is present".
-*Past progressive: Imperfect (minus suffixes and with final accent) + Perfect of ''nabar'' "he was present" - e.g. ''yikeéd nabrúun'' "they were walking/going".
+**''Halaw'' (stem: ''h-l-w'') is conjugated as a perfect verb, but has present meaning. Its past equivalent is ''nabraw'' (stem: ''n-b-r'').
+*Past progressive: Imperfect (minus suffixes and with final accent) + Perfect of ''nabraw'' "he was present" - e.g. ''yikeéd nabrúun'' "they were walking/going".
 ==Syntax==