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=== Verbs === | |||
Verbs in Alhi are the most inflecting part of speech in the language, as they conjugate for multiple moods, aspects, tenses, they also have multiple compound (periphrastic) tenses. All verbs have one singular way of conjugation with minor alterations for ease of pronunciation. | |||
The tenses that exist in Alhi verbs are: the present, the future, the near past, and the future past. This 4-way distinction only exists in indicative mood of the non-aspectual aspect & progressive aspect. Most other moods only distinguish present, future, and past. | |||
==== The present indicative ==== | |||
The present tense in the indicative mood corresponds to actions that occur in the 'now'. | |||
* '''''Vo''''' colu. — '''I am''' good. (The copula, ''vulun'', is the only verb to not require a subject pronoun.) | |||
* '''Daon''' '''ei''' heitiri. — '''She recieves''' a sword. | |||
* '''Keleu eil''' heilor. — '''They play''' amongst themselves. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Present indicative forms of ''kelun'' 'to play' | |||
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!Singular | |||
!Plural | |||
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|'''First person''' | |||
|''kela'' 'I play' | |||
|''kelau'' 'We play' | |||
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|'''Second person''' | |||
|''kelo'' 'You play' | |||
|''kelu'' 'You play (plural)' | |||
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|'''Third person''' | |||
|''kel'' 'He, she, they, it plays' | |||
|''keleu'' 'They play (plural)' | |||
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Verbs in the third person present indicative non-aspectual are the same as the stem of the verb (infinitive-less verb). | |||
==== The future indicative ==== | |||
The future tense in the indicative mood corresponds to actions that occur in the future or 'later'. Unlike the past tense, this future tense corresponds to any action that will occur in any amount of time in the future. In Classical Alhi, there was distinct near future and far future tense but this system eventually collapsed to one singular future tense. | |||
* '''''Vos''''' lozkuliz. — '''I will be''' a husband. | |||
* '''Ojelf''' '''ei''' | |||