7.2 - Strong and weak conjugations
Depending on how the tense cathegory (cf. Paragraph 7.1) is encoded, Anawanda verbs split into a strong and a weak conjugation. Strong and weak verbs also differ in the way they select their set of inflectional endings (listed and explained in Paragraph 7.6).
Strong verbs have three different stems (derived by means of ablaut or reduplication), one for each of the tenses (past, non-past, virtual). Strong verbs use the strong series suffixes for all their forms, and the choice between set A and B for the imperfective forms is purely lexical.
Weak verbs also have different stems (derived by means of affixation), but they often have just two different stems. The choice of the proper series of suffixes is also based on the tense, so that, for some verb forms, the burden of encoding tense, aspect/modality and person is all on the suffix.
Strong and weak verbs distinguish six morphological classes each, depending on the shape of their stems and the way they change.
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