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 ===Verbs===
-Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs.
+Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs (but they're ergative).
-There are only two tenses: past and non-past.
-Modern Netagin has an unusual form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense'' in transitive clauses: When an ergative preposition is used, the clause is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about via the conflation of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''se3þe'' 'after' in an older split-ergative system. For intransitive clauses, the past tense is marked by an ergative preposition used on the subject, even though the subject is not syntactically ergative. Hence, Modern Netagin does not have genuine split-ergativity but rather a tensed pronoun system like Wolof.
 ====Non-past====
 :'''''Se ʔaḏnaʔe rȝun ʔaxd.'''''