A Bit About kwano's Verb Conjugation
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4. History of kwano
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5. kwano's conscript
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7. Pronouns in kwano
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Verbs in kwano can conjugate in many ways, so this is just a bit of an explanation of which can be dropped and when.There are technically 2 types of verbs, those that can reoccur, and those that cannot reoccur. I will be talking about the former because there are more conjugations in that type (twice as many), though the rules still apply to the none reoccurring verbs.
Verbs can conjugate by tense primarily, which include past, present, future and want, which is done with a prefix. Want is expressing the desire to do the verb. They also conjugate by person, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person inclusive and exclusive which are distinct; as well as the perspective with a repetition of the verb. So verbs can get a bit long, such as Want; 3rd person inclusive; reoccurring.
But not all the information is necessary, different parts can be dropped if it is understood in context, such as not needing to specify it's the past if you are talking about what happened last week. The first person is often omitted unless: you are specifying it was/is you who did/is doing it for clarification; or are changing the subject from someone else to yourself.
The 3rd person exclusive is used if either the speaker OR the listener OR neither of you are included in the verb action. It can be used to say "They did this" and doesn't require it's own conjugation or pronoun as the meaning is understood by context.
The way to define whether it is a can reoccur verb or cannot reoccur is by whether or not the verb is likely/able to be done many times in a short time frame, usually on one object, or not.
Passive verbs, such as seeing, hearing etc. are classed as cannot reoccur since they are pretty much always active - so there is no need to say it is done many times.
If a verb is acted on multiple objects, rather than multiple times on one object, the particle for many, 'ta', is used before the verb, rather than as a suffix in conjugation.
An example for a non-reoccurring verb is 'riko', to hear, which is passive so it is not repeated multiple times, but continuously. If you have listened to a specific thing, like a song, multiple times it can be expressed by '[blank] ta rikosa' or I have listened to [blank] a lot.
An example of this with a reoccurring verb is with 'nali' - to utilise, if an object was used multiple times it becomes 'nalita/naliata', but if many different objects were utilised, it becomes 'ta nali/nalisa' (depending on whether 1st person is omitted or not).
The classification will depend on the verb, so 'nwazo' which is to break, would normally be cannot reoccur, since once something is broken, it cannot be broken again until it is fixed, however it is classed as can reoccur, which is from 'ta nwazo' being changed to 'nwazota' because it flows nicer. Verbs that behave like this are: to bleed, to fix, to break, to restore, to eat, etc.
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