Advanced Verb Conjugation in Makulian
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an overview of non-tense/person verb conjugation in the Makulian language
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While Makulian's tense/person conjugation system might seem simple, it gets much more difficult when mood, aspect, and voice are added. Unlike English, mood, aspect, and voice are expressed by adding certain suffixes.
Though this may sound simple, the system is, in practice, somewhat difficult as suffixes aren't added as entire syllables, but rather as single sounds. This is done to condense words that would have, had full syllables been used for conjugation, become unuseably long and difficult to pronounce. Being that Makulian is a highly agglutinative language, entire sentences can be expressed within one conjugated verb.
Each type of conjugation is shown in the order in which it would be added to a word (i.e. the imperative mood will always be put before the desiderative, mood will always be before aspect, etc.). When a verb is conjugated without mood but with aspect, or with mood and voice but without aspect, there are placeholder vowels and consonants that are added so as to have a full syllable.
MOODS (o)
imperative (command): -ú
desiderative (want to): -ä
assumptive (assuming [must have]): -ai
optative (i hope): -ó
subjunctive (to have to): -a
conditional (they would): -i
general deontic (should): -e
dubitative (might/maybe): -í
ASPECT (n)
cessative (to stop): mm
continuative (continuing action [still]): tt
discontinuous past (used to): kk
perfect (finished action, still stands): dd
inchoative (to become): v
momentane (quickly do smth): rr
prospective (past ‘would’): j
VOICE
active: no ending
passive: -ö
causative (cause/make x to y): ač
potential (be able to): -ä
negative: la
EXAMPLES
Tvör ven kisöstíðottač
She is still making me go
(Makulian often drops the subject pronoun, so this sentence is very formal sounding because of its use of the nominative 3rd person feminine pronoun 'tvör') ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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