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Aspects, states and mood (verbs).

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Verbs, outside their vocalic changes for tenses, they're mostly agglutinative, ussing a set of affixes to express mood, state and aspect.

Moods are:

-Indicative: real action.

-Subjunctive: desire or doubt.

-Imperative: order or task.

-Optative: desire or wish. Works with Sunjunctive+Essive case.

-Prohibitive: prohibition. Mark: -ха-

-Sorpresive: surprise or shock. Mark: Гьаъ-

-Hypothetical: to talk about nor real situations.

States are:

-Reallis: real action.

-Irrealis: imaginary situations. (not directly marked. Expressed through subjunctive or hypothetical).

-Potential: capacity of doing something. Mark: -ты-

-Dubitative: posibility. Mark: -уц-

-Negative: negation. Mark: -аш-

-Conditional: in subordinate sentences.

And aspects are:

-Perfective: done actions.

-Imperfective: not finished past actions.

-Habitual: usual actions. Mark -ща-

-Inchoative: starting action. Mark: -дав-

-Terminative: finished actions. Mark: -эл-

-Iterative: repetitive actions. Mark: -гьан-

-Momentary: action done just once or twice. Mark: -хӏад-

-Durative: prolonged and extremply long actions. Mark: -кӏан-

-Progressive: exact action moment. Mark: -тъе-

Indicative, subjunctive, evidenciality, perfective and imperfective are marked in the conjugation itself.

The order is always: verb+tense/mood(if not with tense)/state/aspect.

Example: If it were raining tomorrow, I would stay at home.

It's traduced to: Лӏуьгънуьсшетъе гъӏавщтӏеръыз лӏу, дбенейцуй тъехлин ду.

Mood: subjunctive future.

Aspect: progressive

State: irrealis.