Verb declension
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There are 4 tenses: present, past, future perfective and future imperfective.
The past tense was developed from a present perfect tense, which is implied by adding the perfect suffix -k, and was later reanalyzed as the simple past.
For Example:
‘i go to school’
turns into:
‘i have gone to school -> i went to school’
The future was created by changing the conjugated vowel ending into ü/u (determined by vowel harmony), which forms the Future Imperfective, then -k was added to create the Future Perfective.
Moods:
Realis: Indicative, things that actually happen, or will happen (habits, facts)
Irrealis: Subjunctive, Interrogative and Imperative, hypotheticals or hopes that aren´t sure of happening
Loading paradigm...Interogative: -n for present and future imperfective, -nk instead of -k for past and future perfective. It is added agglutinatively after the irrealis conjugation. Interrogative itself is a Yes-no question. With Question words, Interrogative should be used to form questions, as with Realis mood it would only be a indefinite pronoun
Imperative: Direct command or jussive, a suggestion or advice.
-á: 1sg
-ász: 2sg
-a: 3sg
-ám: 1pl
-ác: 2pl
-já: 3pl
Directions:
a prefix is added to the verb to make the meaning more explicit.
légel "go" → relégel "arrive".
postpositions can tell the direction of the verb
métel "see" → métel ig "look outside", which is different from gemétel "