Spoken Thoughts && Digest Number DCLXVI

Eruanno none wrote:
> Tenses:           S.                                 P.
>   Present:    Tulta                               Tultar
>   Past:       Untulta                             Untultar
>   Future:     Entulta                             Entultar
>   Perfect:    En/Un/0- Tultaa                     En/Un/0- Tultaar
>   Aorist:     Tuultaa                             Tuultaar
>
> NOTE: If Perfect is not inflicted, it is imperfect, hence, it has not been
> completed yet.
>
> Aspect not worked on yet...
Actually, "perfect" and "aorist" are aspects.  Is that third choice on
perfect a zero or the letter O?  Oh, I got it now.  So, Entultaa would
be future perfect, Untultaa pluperfect, and Tultaa present perfect?

So, are these endings the same for all verbs?  Interesting that there's
a singular/plural distinction, but not personal number.

> Mood:
>   Indicative:      No Change
>   Subjunctive:     -yen(l)- between -t- and -a-: Tultyenna
>   Negative:        prefix: nin(n)- or ni-: Nintulta
>   Imperative:      -yel(l)- between -t- and -a-: Tultyella
>   Interrogative:   prefix: ja- or jet(t)-: Jatulta
>   Probabilitative: -on(n) between -t- and -a-: Tultonna
>   Optative:        -ol(l) between -t- and -a-: Tultolla
>   Approximative:   -oin(n) between -t- and -a-: Tultoinna
>   Hortative:       -oil(l) between -t- and -a-: Tultiolla
Can these be combined?  For example, can you have _Nintultyella_ for
"negative imperative"?

How do you know which one to use on negative and interrogative?

What's "approximative" mean?

> Certainty:
>   Known:    No change
>   Hearsay:  prefix in-, i-,or im-: Intulta
>   Probable: prefix on-, o-,or om-: Ontulta
Groovy.  The technical term is "evidentiality" for that time of
phenomenon.

Are the prefixes added in the order you gave them?  So, would "hearsay
past" be _unintulta_?

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