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The tenses so far. (Tense, mood, aspect, etc.)
Verbs are not conjugated for person or plurality, but they do make the intransitive/transitive distinction. Nearly every int verb ends in -l, and nearly every trans verb ends in -r.
Some verbs have a pair of a more and less intense version. "Nunniel" means "to misplace or briefly lose, or lose something you're not worried about." "Nuunil" means "to lose something or someone dear," and has a sense of greater permanence.
Another example:
Yenniel "to want/wish"
Yeenil "to deeply yearn"
Tenses:
Infinitive is the base verb.
leilil "to laugh"
thander "to bear, to carry"
Simple present
The base verb, with an optional -e.
leilil, leilile "laugh"
thander, thandere "bear, carry"
simple future
add -oco to the base verb. This usually changes stress to the 2nd syllable, for 2 syllable verbs.
leililoco "will laugh"
thanderoco "will bear/carry"
simple past
I have to check my notes, but vowels within the verb shift. e -> o is the one I remember, and u stays the same. I don't remember if dipthongs also change. Add -e.
I do remember that "veer" (to love) becomes "voore" (loved).
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Edit: some notes about past tense
Past Tense Vowel Shifts
e -> o (both long and short)
o -> o
a -> a
i -> a
u -> u
Most 2 syllable (or more) verbs have at least one i or e, so this helps with ambiguity. I like having some ambiguity though.
ie - > io
io stays the same
ea - > eo
eo stays the same
oe - > ue
ue stays the same
ai and ei drop the i and maybe become long?
ae (long e + short e) appears in different places than other vowel combos, with different stress rules, so I think it either stays the same or becomes a long e monopthong.
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There's a tense I've been calling "aorist" but it's sort of, "eternal state of being." It overlaps with "habitual" somewhat. A very stable "way that things are."
It can be conjugated in past, present, and future (at least), by adding a- to the verb.
aleilile "always laugh" (this is hard to translate)
athandere "ever bear" (see above)
aleililoco, athanderoco, etc
Progressive: add -ea
present:
laililea "is laughing"
thanderea "is bearing"
future:
laliloceia "will be laughing" (oco + ea becomes oceia, moving stress to 2nd to last syllable. A reminder that c is always hard.)
thanderoceia "will be bearing"
past: replace final -e with -ea, eg voorea. (Is there a version that vowel-shifts "ea" too?)
Perfect: add -bre (make any of these progressive by changing to -brea)
I forget the linguistic names so I'm doing this via English analogy.
"has [verb]ed":
laililbre "has laughed"
thandebre "has carried" (drop the -r for transitive verbs, and add -bre.)
"will have [verb]ed":
laililocobre "will have laughed"
"had [verb]ed": drop -e from simple past, add -bre. (Also drop -r for transitive verbs.) Eg voobre "had loved."
I think you can combine these in more ways, but we're still working on that, aren't we.
Mood, aspect, etc:
Again, I'm not too familiar with the linguistic terms yet.
Conditional ("if"): -esca
"May it happen!" tense: -ocee
This is also at least one of the imperative forms, as in "may you do that!"
I think I'm missing "it could happen," "it must happen," "it can happen."
There's a -v- or -va- particle that can be added or inserted in various tenses to show purposefulness/intention.
leililvocon "I fully intend to laugh/I will laugh on purpose."
Ee (long e) can be added to the beginning of verbs as well as nouns to show depth of feeling. It also can stand along as "ah!/alas!"
Negative: add u- to the beginning of verbs, eg "uleilile" ("does not laugh"). This replaces a- and ee-, so I think there are extra helper verbs you can add afterwards, to express those things (I haven't worked this out yet).
Copula: "be." Used for both present and imperative. Not sure if it's conjugated in other tenses.
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