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 ==== Overview ====
-Pataxea verbal morphology is substantially less complicated than Azkali verbal morphology: unlike in Azkali, in which all verbs can conjugate for the full spectrum of tense, mood, persons, etc, only a very small subset of Pataxea verbs can. The verbs that can conjugate like this are called ''synthetic verbs'', while the rest are called ''periphrastic'' (''verbs''). The only synthetic Pataxea verbs are '''is''' (to be), '''ia''' (to have), '''ahha''' (to do), '''eiexe''' (to have), '''reas''' (to run), and '''ea''' (to give). In Pataxea, the sentence ''Kre saxanereal sarieak'' translates to "I ate with him". This can be broken down into:
+Pataxea verbal morphology is in general substantially less complicated than Azkali verbal morphology: unlike in Azkali, in which all verbs can conjugate for the full spectrum of tense, mood, persons, etc, only a very small subset of Pataxea verbs can. The verbs that can conjugate like this are called ''synthetic verbs'', while the rest are called ''periphrastic'' (''verbs''). The only synthetic Pataxea verbs are '''is''' (to be), '''ia''' (to have), '''ahha''' (to do), '''eiexe''' (to have), '''reas''' (to run), and '''ea''' (to give). In Pataxea, the sentence ''Kre saxanereal sarieak'' translates to "I ate with him". This can be broken down into:
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-These suffixes are also occasionally used in the creation of nouns: for example, the Pataxea word ''titakaina'', meaning author, is derived from ''tita'', to read, and the agentive suffix -na.
+It can be seen in this example that periphrastic verbs take tense marking when placed in the participle, and while ungrammatical, it is technically possible to parse a sentence without a synthetic auxiliary verb. These suffixes are also occasionally used in the creation of nouns: for example, the Pataxea word ''titakaina'', meaning author, is derived from ''tita'', to read, and the agentive suffix -na.
+The so called "secondary suffixes" are rarer participle suffixes for certain periphrastic verbs. A list of these secondary suffixes are shown below:
+{| class="wikitable"
+! colspan="2" |
+!Vowel ending
+!Consonant ending
+!Notes
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+! rowspan="3" |-exi
+!Far past
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+| rowspan="3" |''-exi''
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+!Past
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+|-
+!Nonpast
+| -xi
+| -exi
+|}
 ===== Compound verb constructions =====
-Almost all Pataxea phrases contain compound verbal constructions, formed with a periphrastic verb followed by a conjugated synthetic verb.
+Almost all Pataxea phrases contain compound verbal constructions, formed with a periphrastic verb placed most often in the participle, followed by a conjugated synthetic verb. Different combinations of periphrastic verb inflection and synthetic conjugation can combine to form a rich array of inflection, far more than can be expressed in synthetic verbs alone. These periphrastic conjugations can include compound tenses, different moods, verbal aspects, and so on. A non-exhaustive list of these periphrastic conjugations follows:
+{| class="wikitable"
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+!Tense
+!Form
+!Examples
+!Notes
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+!Present
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++ synthetic non-past tense
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+* ''nis'' 'I am'
+* ''tis'' 'You are'
+* ''kis'' 'They/it are/is'
+* ''chixrua nis'' 'I am cold'
+* 'I read'
+* ''naik'' 'I work'
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 ==== Synthetic verbs ====