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.