Editing Guide:Advanced Verbs

Previously: [[Guide:Pronouns, Basic Verbs|Pronouns, Basic Verbs]]
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Verbs in Tansord, beyond the tense and person/number agreements shown above, can also take on one of three aspects and one of five forms. 

== Vowel dropping, stress ==

== Verb aspects ==

In Tansord, verbs have one of three aspects. By default, verbs take on the Momentaneous aspect (single, punctual action). Aspect prefixes go before Verb form prefixes (which are further below).
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Adding the prefix c(a)- marks the continuous aspect, meaning the action is, was, or will be ongoing and not finished.
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Adding the prefix g(a)- marks the repetitive aspect, meaning that the action happens multiple times.


Examples:

* Lakunoj: I saw.
* Cal'kunej: I am seeing.
* Gal'kunej: I keep seeing.

=== Verb forms ===
There are 5 for each verb. For the verb forms, there are two classes of verbs. Most verbs are Class I, and Class II verbs are generally stative verbs (i.e. describing a state of being). All verbs, by default, are simple active verbs. In both classes of verbs, the prefix ''s(a)-'' turns it into the reflexive (i.e, the action is being done to oneself by oneself).

* y(a)- (Class I): passive
* y(a)- (Class II): intensive
* h(a)- (Class I and II): causative
* j(a)- (Class I): causative passive
* j(a)- (Class II): causative intensive
* s(a)- (Class I and II): reflexive

Example of a Class I verb (root: Katab - writing)

* Katabi: To write
* Yak'tabi: To be written
* Hak'tabi: To cause to write (i.e. to dictate)
* Jak'tabi: To be caused to be written (i.e. to be dictated)
* Sak'tabi: To write oneself (to correspond)

Example of a Class II verb (root: Qewic - slowness)

* Qewici: To be slow
* Yaq'wici: To be very slow
* Haq'wici: To slow down (transitive)
* Jaq'wici: To slow down heavily (transitive)
* Saq'wici: To slow down (intransitive)

== Copula ==

The verb "Hi" is the default verb meaning "to be." "Sahi", which comes from S(a)- + hi, is the default verb meaning "there is/there was/there will be.) "Yahi" means "to become", "Hahi" means "to transform" and "Jahi" means "to be transformed."