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Hamatekian Verbs
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There are four verb classes with separate meanings and conjugations.
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In Hamateki's dictionary, there are four listed verb classes. Each of these classes corresponds to a separate meaning, relating to how the verb extends over time and what happens during the action. The meanings can be approximated by a table:

OutIn
SingleIII
ContinuousIIIIV

The "in" and "out" roughly correspond to the action direction relative to the subject, although there are some exceptions, like "cemoak" (cemoak), meaning "to come," which is a class II verb, as it has a strong association with inwards motion, even though the action direction is outwards from the subject's perspective. The distinction between single and continuous is easier to grasp, as it is simply whether the verb extends over time. For example, "watch" (gique, gique) extends over time where "see" (giquek, giquek) does not. As can be noticed noticed with the previous example, verbs with similar meanings but different classes begin identically but end differently. Sometimes, there is a root that can become a verb for each of the classes, such as here:

OutIn
Singledahiyk, dahiykdahyik, dahyik
Continuousdahiy, dahiydahyi, dahyi

The endings of all of these words are completely regular, so they can be shown in a table. In the table, "U" represents an unrounded vowel, "R" indicates a rounded vowel, and any lowercase letter simply stands for itself.

OutIn
SingleURkRUk
ContinuousURRU

Verbs are conjugated for a combination of tense and aspect only using the past/future and perfect/prospective to determine relatively when the action happened. Conjugation differs between the I/II classes and the III/IV classes. The difference between the future tense and the present prospective is that the future tense indicates definite events while the present prospective is used for planned events. The present perfect simply shows a recent event while the past tense denotes a more distant event.
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