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=='''Verbs'''==
=='''Verbs'''==


==='''Verb structure'''===
===Verb structure===


==='''Verb phrase'''===
Compared to the rest of the language, verbs have very little inflectional morphology, only conjugating for tense and causativity
 
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
| rowspan="2" style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Adverb
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Applicative particle
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" | Auxiliary
| rowspan="2" |
! colspan="3" | Verb
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Aspect particle
|-
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Auxiliary stem
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Tense suffix
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Causative Prefix
! style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Verb Stem
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Tense suffix
|}


==='''Tense'''===
==='''Tense'''===
Muna has a simple three-tense system in which the verb can be conjugated for past, present or future. However, these tense suffixes have to agree in number to the subject (or topic, if there's no subject present) of the sentence.
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! style="width: 100px;" |
! style="width: 100px;" | Past
! style="width: 100px;" | Present
! style="width: 100px;" | Future
|-
! Singular
|
|
|
|-
! Plural
|
|
|
|}


==='''Aspect'''===
==='''Aspect'''===
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