Dalecarlian verb tenses

Verbs are conjugated in tenses. The main or simple tenses are present and past:

Present,
is used to show something that happens now:

han les (='he is reading', 'he reads'),
hoñ spilær (='she is playing', 'she plays')

Past,
is used to show something that happened then:

han las (='he was reading', 'he read'),
hoñ spilæð (='she was playing', 'she played')

The complex tenses are present perfect, past perfect, future, supine, future perfect and supine perfect.<p>

Present perfect,
is always made of two verbs and is used to show what has happened:

Han hafr lesið (='he has read'),
Hoñ hafr spilåð (='she has played')

Past perfect,
is always made of two verbs and is used to show what had happened:

Han hafði lesið (='he had read'),
Hoñ hafði spilåð (='she had played')

Future,
is used to show something that will happen:

Han al leså (='he will read'),
Hoñ al spilå (='she will play')

Supine,
is used to show something that would happen:

Han uldi leså (='he would read'),
Hoñ uldi spilå (='she would play')

Future perfect,
is used to show something that will have happened:

Han al håfå lesið (='he will have read'),
Hoñ al håfå spilåð (='she will have played')

Supine perfect,
is used to show something that would have happened:

Han uldi håfå lesið (='he would have read'),
Hoñ uldi håfå spilåð (='she would have played')

Auxilliary verbs are in present or past, and main verbs are in infinitive or past participle.