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Verbs have two stems: present and past. Present stems can be simple or secondary. Simple tenses are formed by the addition of personal endings to stems. Secondary stems consist of a root + suffixes that indicate transitivity, intransitivity, and causativity. There are 3 tenses: present, past, and future. There are 2 voices: active and passive.
After a present tense main verb, the present subjunctive is usual, for example in the following indirect command: nūntium mittit ut veniant (Livy) [316] 'she sends a messenger (to say) that they should come' When a question is made indirect, the verb is always changed into the subjunctive mood, as in the following example:
Thus all those Latin verbs which in the present tense have 1st singular -ō, 2nd singular -ās, and infinitive -āre are said to belong to the 1st conjugation, those with 1st singular -eō, 2nd singular -ēs and infinitive -ēre belong to the 2nd conjugation, and so on. The number of conjugations of regular verbs is usually said to be four.
Notice that ejectivization is lost with the present tense-ending, while it is kept with the past participle-ending. When suffixing the verbal noun-ending /-nu/ to a verbal stem, the verbal noun-ending is geminated - not the final consonant, e.g. /tʼa-ja/ "to drop" > /tʼa-nːu/ "something which has been dropped".
Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many phonological, syntactic, and semantic changes. Most of the distinctions present in classical Latin continued to be made, but synthetic forms were often replaced with more analytic ones. Other ...
The indicative mood was the only mood to have distinctions in tense in imperfective verbs, all other moods were tenseless. The present tense used the primary endings. The past tense used the secondary endings. Perfective verbs. The indicative of perfective verbs used secondary endings. Stative verbs
The present tense of εἶμι (eîmi) "I (will) go" is generally used with future meaning in the classical period. [23] These verbs present many irregularities in conjugation. For example, the present tense of εἰμί (eimí) "I am" goes as follows: εἰμί, εἶ, ἐστί(ν), (ἐστόν, ἐστόν,) ἐσμέν, ἐστέ ...
There are apparently two main types of verbs in late Quenya: weak transitive verbs, which are usually 'root' verbs, such as car-"make; do" from the Elvish base or root KAR-, and derivative intransitive verbs with a strong conjugation, whose stems end mainly in -ta, -na, -ya, formed by putting a verbal suffix to a base or root, like henta-"to ...