Okyyryn Verbs
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8th-millennium Okyyryn has lost the mood distinctions that existed in earlier variants.
Tense
There are four tenses in Okyyryn:
- Perfect for states in the past (what was happening)
- Aorist for punctual events in the past (what happened)
- Present
- Future
Those tenses are expressed through different verb stems, which can be quite irregular. The perfect stem has at least one Y or YY vowel, the aorist stem has a different nasality, and the future stem starts with K or an affricative involving S.
Person, Number
Verbs now have prefixes that indicate person and number of the subject. Those can be dropped in third person if the subject is a noun. The prefixes depend on whether a verb starts with a vowel or a consonant.
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | s(yy) ಸ(ಈ) |
p(oo) ಬ(ಓ) |
dh(oo) ರ(ಓ) |
| 2nd person | s(o) ಸ(ಒ) |
p(o) ಬ(ಒ) |
dh(o) ರ(ಒ) |
| 3rd person animated |
sk(yy) ಸಖ(ಈ) |
p(oo) ಬ(ಓ) |
k(y) ಖ(ಇ) |
| 3rd person inanimated |
l(yy) ಲ(ಈ) |
sj(oo) ಸಷಿ(ಓ) |
sj(oo) ಸಷಿ(ಓ) |
| impersonal | ko(l) ಖಒ(ಲ) |
ko(l) ಖಒ(ಲ) |
ko(l) ಖಒ(ಲ) |
Copulas
There are two copulas:
| meaning | perfect | aorist | present | future |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| existence or possession | py (ಬಇ) |
pön (ಃಬಒ) |
pö (ಬಒ) |
psyy (ಬಸಈ) |
| location | okyyn (ಃಒಖಈ) |
okuu (ಒಖಊ) |
okuun (ಃಒಖಊ) |
kokuun (ಃಕಒಖಊ) |
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