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 ===Verbs===
-Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns. Verbal marking is accusative, even though noun marking is ergative.
+Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns. Ergativity marks tense.
-====Present====
+====Non-past====
 :'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.'''''
-:LOC cook.VN vegetables 1SG
+:PRED cook.VN vegetables 1SG
 :''I am cooking vegetables.''
-====Recent past====
+====Past====
-Xikban ʔadnaʔe reȝun.
+:'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun yisxe.'''''
-I just cooked vegetables.
+:PRED cook.VN vegetables erg.1SG
-(literally: I passed cooking vegetables)
+:''I cooked vegetables.''
-Xemśo ʔadnaʔe reȝun.
-I overcooked vegetables.
-lit. I went too far in cooking vegetables
 ===Derivational morphology===