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| colspan="2" rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"| doranza nani | | colspan="2" rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"| doranza nani | ||
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| doranza naní | | colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| doranza naní | ||
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==== Past Imperfective Tense ==== | |||
The past imperfective tense, based on the perfective, is formed by appending the clitic ''-ata'' or one of its other allomorphs to the last term of the verb phrase: | |||
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! colspan="2"|Indicative | |||
! colspan="2"|Imperative | |||
! colspan="2"|Conjunctive | |||
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! Person<ref>With the exception of the 3rd Formal form, pro-drop occurs frequently regardless of whether the verb form receives person marking or not. In fact it is obligatory when an embedded clause is coreferential with the subject of the prior clause. Pivot is S/A.</ref> | |||
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! Pl | |||
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! 1st | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranza<u>ta</u> | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranzi<u>ata</u>, doranz<u>ata</u> | |||
| colspan="2" style="background-color:black"| dark | |||
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center"|doranz<u>ata</u><ref>Notice that both the past perfective and past imperfective forms are the same for the first person conjunctive forms.</ref> | |||
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! 2nd | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranza ron<u>ta</u> | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranz aire<u>ta</u> | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranza<u>ta</u> | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranzi<u>ta</u> | |||
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"| doranzi<u>ta</u> | |||
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! 3rd | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranz ai<u>ta</u>, doranza neida<u>ta</u> | |||
| style="text-align:center"| doranzi<u>ta</u> | |||
| colspan="2" style="background-color:black"| dark | |||
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! 3rd Indefinite/Formal<ref>When used to refer to an indefinite subject, ''nani'' may be dropped. As a deferential form, however, its use is obligatory.</ref> | |||
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"| doranza náni<u>ta</u> | |||
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| doranza naní<u>ta</u> | |||
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