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===Participle=== | ===Participle=== | ||
In umbrean participles serves | In umbrean participles serves three purposes, the first one is similar to english where it takes on an adjective characteristic describing a noun, "The '''walking''' man", but with the differens of having one for every tense. | ||
The second is for relative clauses, "The man '''whom I like'''" where the verb is turned into a participle but the sentence itself remains otherwise the same, and is like unlike english placed infront of the noun it describes. | The second is for relative clauses, "The man '''whom I like'''" where the verb is turned into a participle but the sentence itself remains otherwise the same, and is like unlike english placed infront of the noun it describes. | ||
And thirdly they are used to modify the verb in the phrase. | |||
To get the subject or object back into the clause one uses the Postpositions Kwë and Tlë, both highly irregular, before the participle with the noun in their proper case. | To get the subject or object back into the clause one uses the Postpositions Kwë and Tlë, both highly irregular, before the participle with the noun in their proper case. | ||