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  2. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    1 the pronouns tum and āp can be used in both singular and plural sense, akin to the English pronoun you. 2 the habitual aspect of Hindustani cannot be put into future tense. 3 the perfective aspect behaves ergatively, agreeing with the object of the sentence.

  3. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    Tense Sentence Translation Romanian Present tu oi face: You might do. Past tu oi fi făcut: You must/might have done. Progressive tu oi fi făcând: You must/might be doing. Aspect Tense Sentence Translation Hindi Habitual Present tū kartā hoga abhī: You must/might be doing it now. Past tū kartā hogā pêhlē.

  4. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is extremely rich in complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. [3]The transitive verbs are obtained by combining nouns/adjectives with verbs such as karnā 'to do', lenā 'to take', denā 'to give', jītnā 'to win' etc.

  5. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    The present tense and the past tense infinitives are respectively used to form the present and the past tense of the presumptive mood. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In Hindi , the presumptive mood conjugations of the verb honā (to be) are used with the perfective, habitual, and progressive aspectual participles to form the perfective presumptive, habitual ...

  6. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    The aspects of Hindi when conjugated into their personal forms can be put into five grammatical moods: indicative, presumptive, subjunctive, contrafactual, and imperative. In Hindi, the aspect marker is overtly separated from the tense/mood marker. Periphrastic Hindi verb forms consist of two elements. The first of these two elements is the ...

  7. Grammatical tense - Wikipedia

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    A tense for after tomorrow is thus called post-crastinal, and one for before yesterday is called pre-hesternal. [citation needed] Another tense found in some languages, including Luganda, is the persistive tense, used to indicate that a state or ongoing action is still the case (or, in the negative, is no longer the case). Luganda also has ...

  8. Verb–subject–object word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam ate oranges). VSO is the third-most common word order among the world's languages, [1] after SOV (as in Hindi and Japanese) and SVO (as in English and Mandarin Chinese).

  9. Jussive mood - Wikipedia

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    li-yaf‘al-hu to-do. JUS. 3SG. MASC -it li-yaf‘al-hu to-do.JUS.3SG.MASC-it 'Have him do it.' A further use of this mood is in negative commands. لا تأخذ ذلك اللحم lā not ta’xudh take. JUS. 2SG. MASC dhālika that l-laḥm the-meat lā ta’xudh dhālika l-laḥm not take.JUS.2SG.MASC that the-meat 'Don't take that meat.' The jussive form is also used in past tense sentences ...