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* An infinitive verb will always end with vowel followed by a voiceless velar stop (k).

* Infinitive verbs generally do not have any long vowels in them because of the following reason.

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* The past tense is shown by an added "-a" in the infinitive, and a lengthening the vowel of the final syllable for perfective and imperfective.

* The future tense is shown by a suffixation of -lèsh, meaning "up (and out)" since the concept of time is an movement upwards.

* The hypothetical is shown by a suffixation of -ivräq, which is a contraction of ''iv'' and ''lhukíräq'', meaning "of" and "possibility" respectively. ''ívräq'' translates roughly to "maybe" in English and is commonly used in conversation.

* The necessitive is an altered form of the verb ''vulâk''', "to need".

* The imperfective and perfective use an auxiliary which became suffixed and altered. They use the verbs ''sájak' '', "to go" and ''sálik' '', "to complete" respectively.

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 * An infinitive verb will always end with vowel followed by a voiceless velar stop (k).
 * Infinitive verbs generally do not have any long vowels in them because of the following reason.
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 * The past tense is shown by an added "-a" in the infinitive, and a lengthening the vowel of the final syllable for perfective and imperfective.
 * The future tense is shown by a suffixation of -lèsh, meaning "up (and out)" since the concept of time is an movement upwards.
-* The hypothetical is shown by a suffixation of -ivräq, which is a contraction of ''iv'' and ''lhukíräq'', meaning "of" and "possibility" respectively. ''ívräq'' translates roughly to "maybe" in English and is commonly used in conversation.
 * The necessitive is an altered form of the verb ''vulâk''', "to need".
 * The imperfective and perfective use an auxiliary which became suffixed and altered. They use the verbs ''sájak' '', "to go" and ''sálik' '', "to complete" respectively.