Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions
| Line 383: | Line 383: | ||
(בּי ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary.) | (בּי ''bi'' is the imperative and the infinitive form of the auxiliary.) | ||
Ăn Yidiș has innovated the tense-aspect system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective) using the form of בּי ''bi'' and the preverbal aspect marker. The auxiliary marks tense and the preverbal aspect marker marks perfectivity | Ăn Yidiș has innovated the tense-aspect system (pres, past/conditional, fut, jussive‚ imperative) x (imperfective, perfective) using the form of בּי ''bi'' and the preverbal aspect marker. The auxiliary marks tense and the preverbal aspect marker marks other aspectual information such as perfectivity. | ||
Note that ''mă nach'' 'if not' is used whenever Irish would use ''mura''. | |||
* to e ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel) | * to e ă(g) = present (to becomes t' before a vowel) | ||