Handling Old Tongue Verbs

suffixes | combinations | examples

The use of this info is explained in Grammar.

Suffixes

Person

1st person	ch
2nd person	p
3rd person	d

Mode

continuing	ke
conditional	ara
pensive	obi
potential	ese

Affirmation

affirmative	—
negative	nyo

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Combinations and Concatenations

• When using a mode, tense is normally dropped unless significant (except with Continuing mode)
• Second person present & negative (when adjacent) concatenate to "pyo"
• Third person present & negative (when adjacent) concatenate to "ryo"
• Second person past & negative (when adjacent) concatenate to "pya"
• Third person past & negative (when adjacent) concatenate to "rya"
• Plural number & negative concatenate to "myo"
• Pensive mode & negative concatenate to "obyo"
• Plural number & mode, the plural is formed by simple "m" if the mode begins in a vowel
• Multiple modes usually combine with an interceding "t" between the vowels. Continuing mode usually comes first in mode combinations, if not it would not call for an interceding "t." Irregularly, vowels concatenate, as with the sometimes heard "chobese" or "chesebi"

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Examples with English equivalents

I went to the trading post Tredin pos ni ichia

If you go to the trading post Tredin pos ni ipara

If we are not going to the trading post Tredin pos ni ichimaranyo

If you were going to the trading post Tredin pos ni ipaketara

He can go to the trading post Tredin pos ni idese

I might go to the trading post Tredin pos ni ichobi

We might be going to the trading post Tredin pos ni ichimaketobi

We would go to the trading post Tredin pos ni ichemobi

If you all might not be able to go to the trading post Tredin pos ni ipemaratobitesenyo OR ipemaratesetobyo OR ipemesetobitaranyo OR ipemobitesetaranyo

NB: In the last example, the first variation stresses the question of ability, "if you might not be ABLE," the second the uncertainty "if you MIGHT not be able," and the third and fourth, the condition "IF you might not be able." In addition, the third implies that the condition in question is the uncertainty, the fourth that it is the ability.

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