7.6 - Finite form suffixes
As seen is Paragraph 7.1, verb forms are generated by the overlapping of an aspect/modality and a tense.
In the conjugation, aspect/modality is encoded by different sets of inflectional endings (each set including one suffix for each person, for a total of eight suffixes each). There are two series of such sets, labelled strong series and weak series. The strong series includes two sets of suffixes for the imperfective (named set A and set B), one for the perfective, one for the virtual and a special set for the injunctive alone. The weak series just includes one set for each of imperfective, perfective and virtual.
The imperfective series are as follows:
| Strong series | Weak Series | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set A | Set B | |||
| Sing | 1st | aam | anam | (l)aam |
| 2nd | uut | uunti | (d)uun | |
| 3rd | ii | ina | (m)uuna | |
| Impersonal | an | aan | (n)a | |
| Plur | 1st | amaa | amaa | (l)aam |
| 2nd | uurruu | uurruu | (l)u | |
| 3rd | ibii | ibii | (m)aban | |
| Dual | 3rd | ati | adin | (g)ati |
The perfective series are as follows:
| Strong series | Weak Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sing | 1st | addam | (l)atta |
| 2nd | attu | (d)uud | |
| 3rd | iittii, ittiin | (m)uttiin | |
| Impersonal | attan | (n)ad | |
| Plur | 1st | amaddan | (l)attam |
| 2nd | urduu | (l)ud | |
| 3rd | abitti | (m)aptii | |
| Dual | 3rd | inda | (n)iitta |
The virtual series are as follows:
| Strong series | Weak Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sing | 1st | arranam | (l)arram |
| 2nd | ur | (d)uurruu | |
| 3rd | irran | (m)atir | |
| Impersonal | aarran | (n)ar | |
| Plur | 1st | anar | (l)arram |
| 2nd | arruur | (l)urtuur | |
| 3rd | ir | (m)iirra | |
| Dual | 3rd | arti | (g)iirdi |
The injunctive strong series is as follows:
| Sing | 1st | arram |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd | uu, uut | |
| 3rd | aci | |
| Impersonal | anca | |
| Plur | 1st | ar |
| 2nd | uurruu, urcu | |
| 3rd | aci | |
| Dual | 3rd | actin |
The initial consonant of the weak suffixes only appears after vowel final stems. Competing forms of the Strong series (3rd singular perfective and 2nd singular and plural injunctive) alternate freely.
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