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Verb Conjugation

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Any verb takes three grammatical values: tense, mood and number.

Detailed description of these grammatical values are presented further.

NUMBER

Singular — the actor is sole.

Plural — the actors are numerous (two or more).

TENSES

Past — an action happened or was happening earlier and finished before the moment of speaking.

Present — an action is happening right now, happens regularly or is a matter of fact.

Future — an action will happen or will be happening after the moment of speaking. Contrary to habits of many European languages, Future and Present are strictly separate in their field of usage. Present can't be used for future action whether the speaker is more certain about it or less. The nearest future is also indicated by the Future Tense.

MOOD

Indicative Mood articulates an action that happened, is happening, happens or will happen. It indicates the mere description of the world.

Subjunctive-Imperative Mood is used for:

1) appeal or request to do something;

2) indicating not the factual action, but the proposed, suggested, required, desired etc. one in a clause.

Irreal-Conditional Mood demonstrates a quirky distribution:

1) Irreal Mood indicates an action that isn't possible or has never happened;

2) Condotional Mood indicates an hypothesized action, a reason, precursor etc. of another action.

Their distribution is the following:

1) In Past Tense only Irreal Mood is used (to grasp that, one could imagine that circumstances and reasons of the past cannot be changed);

2) Present and Future Irreal are not discriminated;

3) Present Conditional and Future Conditional are strictly discriminated (cfr. paragraph "Tenses").