Azkali grammar: Difference between revisions
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|akimateyak | |akimateyak | ||
''( | ''(a relative's (...))'' | ||
|nedhathuk | |nedhathuk | ||
''( | ''(a message's (...))'' | ||
|korozek | |korozek | ||
''( | ''(a bridge's (...))'' | ||
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!Privative | !Privative | ||
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=== Verbs === | === Verbs === | ||
Like most agglutinative languages, Azkali features very few irregular verbs: between four and five in most dialects (though some, particularly Southern Azkali dialects, have as many as twenty irregular verbs). Verbs conjugate for 3 tenses, ''far past, past'', and ''nonpast'', and 4 moods, ''indicative, conditional, hypothetical,'' and ''imperative'', though in two verbs, ''to be'' and ''to have'', marking for person exists. The auxiliary verb ''itu,'' conveying a future tense, also changes depending on grammatical aspect, of which there are three: the ''imperfective, perfective'', and ''bisective.'' | Like most agglutinative languages, Azkali features very few irregular verbs: between four and five in most dialects (though some, particularly Southern Azkali dialects, have as many as twenty irregular verbs). Verbs conjugate for 3 tenses, ''far past, past'', and ''nonpast'', and 4 moods, ''indicative, conditional, hypothetical,'' and ''imperative'', though in two verbs, ''to be'' and ''to have'', marking for person exists. The auxiliary verb ''itu,'' conveying a future tense, also changes depending on person and grammatical aspect, of which there are three: the ''imperfective, perfective'', and ''bisective.'' | ||
==== Conjugation ==== | |||
==== ''Itu'' ==== | |||
''Itu'', as stated previously, is an auxiliary verb that conveys a future tense. Itu, unlike any other regular verb, conjugates for grammatical aspect ''and'' person. Unlike ''isan (to be)'' and ''huka (to have)'', which both conjugate for person (including the singular and a combined paucal/plural), itu conjugates for the singular, paucal, and plural. The full list of forms is shown in the chart below; | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Forms of the auxiliary verb ''itu'' | |||
! rowspan="2" | | |||
! colspan="3" |Singular | |||
! rowspan="2" |Paucal | |||
! colspan="3" |Plural | |||
|- | |||
!1p | |||
!2p | |||
!3p | |||
!1p | |||
!2p | |||
!3p | |||
|- | |||
!Imperfective | |||
| colspan="2" |itu | |||
|ikun | |||
|itzo | |||
|iko | |||
|iku | |||
|ike | |||
|- | |||
!Perfective | |||
|iru | |||
|irun | |||
|ikuro | |||
|itzuro | |||
|ikoro | |||
|ikuro | |||
|ikero | |||
|- | |||
!Bisective | |||
| colspan="2" |irugo | |||
|ikugo | |||
|itzugo | |||
| colspan="3" |ikoga | |||
|} | |||