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Verbs
The verbal system of Læntixu language displays the following features:
- tense:
- simple tenses: present
- compound tenses: present continuous, past, past continuous, pluperfect, future, anterior future
- mood:
- definite moods: indicative, subjunctive, conditional
- indefinite moods: infinitive, active participle, passive participle
- diathesis: active, passive
I vari tempi sono tutti espressi al modo indicativo, mentre i restanti modi esprimono solo una parte di essi.
The citation form of verbs is the present infinitive, marked by the ending -æm‘. From such form the present verbal root can be inferred and can be changed in every other verbal form.
In simple tenses the following personal endings are added to the verbal root. In this way, verbs show their agreement with the clause subject in person and number:
| 1st sing. | |
| 2nd sing. | |
| 3rd sing. | |
| 1st plur. | |
| 2nd plur. | |
| 3rd plur. |
Compound tenses are usually formed through an auxiliary verb (tòram, to have, or kiɣam, to come) with the forms of the participles or the infinitive. The different moods are formed by adding the following infixes to the verbal root, before the personal endings:
- indicative: Ø
- subjunctive: -in-
- conditional: -as-
The non-finite verbal forms are meant as nominal/adjectival forms of the same verbs. They do not add the personal endings, but they are declined as nouns or adjectives with the nominal declension endings.
As verbal forms can, however, take the augment. They can also add the modal infixes before their typical endings.
The non-finite endings are:
- infinitive: -am
- agentive participle: -íðə
- passive participle: -uɣi
The infinitival form is meant as a 2nd class noun.
