See also: [Verb]
[Verb Tenses]
[Parts of Speech]
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Verb Forms
As an example of verb forms, we offer the following two languages:
English Takelma (Verb form; more or less)
(s/he) gives it to you ?okúspi present indiciative
(s/he) will give it to you ?òspink future indicative
(s/he) can give it to you ?òspi present subjunctive
(s/he) evidently gave it to you ?òspik ?implied action in the past?
Refernce: work of Edward Sapir, early linguist study-ing Native
American languages, as quoted in: "The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Language", 2nd ed. by David Crystal,
ISBN 0.521.55967.7 (Melbourne, 1997). Page 6.
Infinitive
Participle
Gerund
Gerundive