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Verbal Nominatives
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9. Dil Taaevodiíl
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10. Dodaes Tagmesciél
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12. Duréis iae Oráis Duril
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15. Galaegréis u Todabéig
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18. Ofaes óis Beldconaegfa
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20. Olerdelt Conegiél
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23. Raeul óis Nasedmunfa
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24. Scevaes Taaevodiél
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25. Siáe Baorecos u Conéig
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27. Siáen Alfotet Taaevaes
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30. Todabéig Taaevodiíl
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32. „Iae“ iaö „Iaö“
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Nominatives are used heavily in Edievian. The nominative of a verb derived in a 100% regular fashion, and there are no verbs with irregular nominatives. The nominative is used for one of two purposes: for use with another verb or to truly turn the verb into a noun.All verbs take the following suffixes to form their nominative forms, which are added after the infinitive ending -ae is removed:
| SGSingular (number) one countable entity | PLPlural (number) more than one/few |
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| -iat /jat̪/ | -iáit /jat͡ʃ/ |
The plural nominative is only used when it is being used as a noun; when being paired with another verb, only the singular nominative is used. a-Dropping verbs drop their /a/ in both the singular and plural nominative.
Verb stems that end in a consonant that can be modified (<c g t d s>) take -iàit in the nominative plural, as -iáit would denote that the stem consonant is modified. Compare:
- pendiat /pen̪d̪jat̪/ painting
- pendiàit /pen̪d̪jat͡ʃ/ bouts of painting, compare *pendiáit /pen̪d͡ʒait̪/
Edievian does not have any true auxiliary verbs, unlike English. There are a few verbs that act similarly to auxiliaries and therefore are rarely used without another verb following (in its nominative form), they are:
- rafae - must, have to
- raflinae - should, ought to
- fosae - can, able to
- foslinae - might, may
Also included in this group are two verbs that are routinely used with or without another verb (again, in the nominative):
- selemae - to like, enjoy
- selemblunae - to love
To create these compound verbs, the first verb is conjugated as usual and followed by the other verb in its singular nominative form:
- raf gae - I must
- dodae - speak
- raf gae dodiat - I must speak
The subject is placed after the conjugated verb and before the nominative verb. Any objects are then placed after the nominative. The basic word order is therefore:
- conjugated verb subject nominative verb direct object indirect object
Prepositions can only take nouns as their objects, so if a verb must be the object of a preposition, it must be put in its nominative form. For example:
Satad siáen afto pre rucliat siáe cliots.
Start the car by turning the key.
The prepositions pov (before) and nev (after) are exceptionally commonly used with verbs in their nominative forms. Abae pov + verb (in the nominative), literally "to be before [verb]" is used as "to be about to [verb]". Abae is only ever put in the progressive aspect in this construction:
Bas pov siáomiat claemsió.
I'm about to eat dinner.
Similarly, abae nev + verb (in the nominative), literally "to be after [verb]" is used as "to just have finished [verb]". Again, abae is only put in the progressive aspect in this construction:
Baéis le nev ravastiat aéis aelvard al.
He has just returned home.
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