CVA Verb Conjugation
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1. Cave Angel Planet
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4. CVA grammar notes
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Cave Angel Language has five verb "tenses" (one is technically a mood):- Remote past - used for events that happened before the speaker's metamorphosis (i.e. they either were not hatched yet, or were a non-sentient larva at the time)
- Medial past - used for events that happened during the speaker's remembered lifetime, up to the past few days or so
- Recent past - used for events that happened anytime in the past few days to now. the recent/medial dividing line is fuzzy and depends on the person and context
- Present - used for events happening now. Just a normal present tense
- Irrealis - used for events that have not currently happened. depending on the sentence structure and additional particles, this could be future, hypothetical/conditional, or negation.
- Irrealis verb + future particle = future tense
- Irrealis verb + sentence is in the form of a question = negation
- Irrealis verb without either of those conditions = subjunctive/conditional/hypothetical events
The irrealis form is the unmarked tense.
CVA also has 4 aspects:
- Experiential - used for events that (have) happen/ed at least once; "I have run (at least once)"
- Frequentative - used for events that happen/ed repeatedly or habitually; "I run (regularly)"
- Progressive - used for events that are ongoing at the considered time; "I am/was running"
- Perfective - used for events that are already complete at the considered time; "I have run (I am finished running)"
The experiential form is the unmarked aspect.
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