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===Verbs===
===Verbs===
Verbs in Grekelin have tense, number and voice inflection. For this reason, they are highly irregular yet they carry much more information than English verbs. Here is the verb "peio" (To create, make) inflected by voice and number:
Verbs in Grekelin are split into three classes: Weak, strong and irregular. Their classification depends on the last vowel of the word's root (The word without any prefixes and suffixes conveying grammatical information) while the irregulars are outliers in both. The verb class defines the way a word will be inflected for number, tense and mood.
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Verb inflection in Grekelin
|-
!            !! Singular !! Plural !! Passive (Singular) !! Passive (Plural)
|-
| 1st person || Peió    || Peiómen || Epeióme    || Epeiómetta
|-
| 2nd person || Peié    || Peiéte  || Peióse    || Epeiósase
|-
| 3rd person || Peiei    || Peíanda || Peiándande || Epeiándande
|}
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A tense inflection table (Grekelin has 4 tenses: Present, Aorist,  and Future. One interesting feature that is inherited all the way from [[w:Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] is the [[w: Indo-European ablaut|ablaut system]] which is used especially in the past tenses instead of suffixes.
 
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Verb tenses in Grekelin
|-
!            !! Present  !! Aorist !! Imperfect !! Future
|-
| 1st person || Peió    || Ipeia    || Ipeiamane    || Enna Peiso
|-
| 2nd person || Peié    || Ipeiate  || Ipeiate      || Enna Peise
|-
| 3rd person || Peiei    || Ipeiande || Ipeian      || Enna Peisei
 
|-
| 1st plural person || Peiómen || Ipeiamen    || (Same as past perfect) || Enna peiomen
|-
| 2nd plural person || Peiéte  || Ipeiande    || (Same as past perfect) || Enna peiete
|-
| 3rd plural person || Peíen  || Ipeiane    || (Same as past perfect) || Enna peien
|}
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Additional tenses (Such as the perfect and the pluperfect and many others) are often found especially in colloquial speech, in a way similar to English (Standard '''Ipeia''' (I made) vs Colloquial '''Peio eo''' (I have made), literally "I made I have").


==Geographic Distribution and Demographics==
==Geographic Distribution and Demographics==
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