This page details Aril's present tense, indicative mood. But first...
Some Notes on the Structure of Aril Conjugations
Almost all Aril verbal conjugations have at least one element of this basic structure.
All Aril verbs end with a liquid: most commonly r or l, but there are some verbs that end with rh or ll. (For details on pronouncing these sounds, see Aril Phonology). To these is usually attached:
1) A single consonant that encodes a particular tense, mood, and sometimes aspect;
and
2) An ending that encodes person, number, and sometimes gender.
Some aspects are signaled by interjecting a letter into the verb itself (as is one mood, the imperative), and passive voice is usually signaled by the absence of an independent subject and/or a noun in the instrumentive case in the sentence. Otherwise, all verbs are assumed to be in the active voice. The personal endings, which also function as pronouns as far as Aril has any, do not vary from one tense to another.
In the case of the tense and mood now under discussion, Aril verbs express only a single action taking place at the present moment. Thus, this tense cannot be used to express the equivalent of English "I'm singing," and it is not appropriate to use it of verbs like "dwell," which imply an action that inherently last more than a moment. Even coupling the verb with a word like tol, "right now, at this moment," will not permit the use of present indicative with a verb like this, because it would still imply that one was living in the named location for only a moment.
The consonant -l- embodies present tense, indicative mood, and active voice. It is placed at the end of a verb in the infinitive (liquid-ending) form, and before the personal ending.
Thus:
| Aril | English | Personal Ending |
| riallan | I sing | -an |
| riallit | you sing | -it |
| rialla | she sings | -a |
| riallo | he sings | -o |
| rially | it sings | -y |
| riallun | we sing | -un |
| riallot | you all sing | -ot |
| riallyr | they sing | -yr |
The neutral "-ly" ending in the third person also serves as a generic pronoun for Aril, used when the gender of a third person is not known. Thus rially can mean either "it sings," referring to an object of unknown or neutral gender, such as a bird or a sword, or "he or she sings," referring to a person of unknown gender.
