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Verbs

Verbal roots in Æbbro language systematically end in a consonant. As normal for an agglutinative language, like the nouns, in verbal conjugation the tense endings are different and separated form the aspect endings and the mood endings. Endings are added to the verbal root without undergoing any alteration (excluding vowel harmony). Thus, the structure root + endings in easily recognizable:

taažo egmireggæpiid → egmir - egg - æp - iid
they could have written → to write - potential mood - perfect aspect - past tense

The verbal system displays the following features:

  • mood: indicative, optative, potential, imperative
  • aspect: habitual, progressive, perfect, resultative
  • tense: past, present, future

The citation form of verbs is the indicative habitual present or the habitual imperative form, which coincide with the pure verbal root.

tuurkar
see / see! / to see

Three non-finite nominal/adjectival forms are also distinguished:

  • Non-finite forms: infinite, active participle, passive participle.

On the morphological level the verb display no person, or number, exhibiting always the same unaltered form. These features are conveyed through the personal pronouns.

roo tuurkarom
I see