This page shows the most regular conjugations that one can expect to find in Primal, including the imperative. The verb used is morolo, to walk.
| Primal | English |
| morolok | I walk |
| morolou | you walk |
| morolosta | he walks |
| nemorolo | we walk |
| morolol | you all walk |
| moroon | they walk |
This table displays the present tense forms of morolo. All are suffixes except the "we" form. This is the case with most Primal verbs. These are simple present tense forms, meaning, for example, "I walk across the room." They are sometimes also used as progressive forms, such as "I am walking."
| Primal | English |
| lormorolo | I walked |
| moroloao | you walked |
| morolot | he walked |
| nimorolo | we walked |
| morolor | you all walked |
| morolory | they walked |
This is the simple past tense, "I walked across a room." Primal does not distinguish between a preterite (done only once) and an imperfect (done many times or habitually) action in the past, and so this tense will be used for almost anything that happened before the present moment.
| Primal | English |
| ilamorolo | I will walk |
| tamorolo | you will walk |
| umorolo | he will walk |
| numorolo | we will walk |
| morolom | you all will walk |
| moroloec | they will walk |
Primal is stricter on use of the future tense than some other languages. If an action will take place in the future, it must use the future tense. There is no use of the present for the future as sometimes happens in English.
| Primal | English |
| ermorolok | I have walked |
| ermorolou | you have walked |
| ermorolosta | he has walked |
| ernemorolo | we have walked |
| ermorolol | you all have walked |
| ermoroon | they have walked |
Primal perfect tenses are formed by adding the prefix er to the conjugated verb in question. This is present perfect tense, used only when one can reasonably have expected an action to be completed: i.e., "He has walked three miles by now."
| Primal | English |
| erlormorolo | I had walked |
| ermoroloao | you had walked |
| ermorolot | he had walked |
| ernimorolo | we had walked |
| ermorolor | you all had walked |
| ermorolory | they had walked |
This is the table of past perfect tenses, as close as Primal gets to the imperfect. Thus one might say, "Erlormorolo sezess ter alrai trishora..." or "I had walked for three days when..."
| Primal | English |
| erilamorolo | I will have walked |
| ertamorolo | you will have walked |
| erumorolo | he will have walked |
| ernumorolo | we will have walked |
| ermorolom | you all will have walked |
| ermoroloec | they will have walked |
This is the table of future perfect tenses, used when speaking of a time that one expects an action to be completed. However, neither time nor action has started yet.
| Primal | English |
| moroloi | (you) Walk! |
| morolonu | Let us sing! |
| morolome | (you all) Walk! |
This table lists the only common imperative forms. (Others exist for the other persons, but only to express emphasis). Imperative tenses are used when giving commands and in moments of urgency; in cases where one wants to be polite, one uses the future tense instead, or the more obscure "request tenses" (discussed later).
| Primal | English |
| meymorolok | I never walk |
| meymorolou | you never walk |
| meymorolosta | he never walks |
| meynemorolo | we never walk |
| meymorolol | you all never walk |
| meymoroon | they never walk |
The suffix "mey" means never, and can be added on to all forms of the verb to convey emphatic negativity. (Ordinary negativity is the business of the small word wa, meaning "not," and placed after verbs). The word "Meyumorolo," for example, means "He will never walk." A common exclamation among many Elwens is, "Meyilalona!" (I will never surrender!).
On the order of mey-, there are several other prefixes that can be attached to verbs (usually in the present tense) to convey emphasis. All are set off with apostrophes afterwards. These are rek, "can"; rekwa, "cannot"; she, "should"; and sha, "must." Thus: rek'morolok "I can walk"; rekwa'morolou "you cannot walk"; she'moroon, "they should walk"; and sha'nemorolo, "we must walk."
| Primal | English |
| morolotec | I would walk |
| moroloat | you would walk |
| morolost | he would walk |
| morolone | we would walk |
| morololahn | you all would walk |
| moroloton | they would walk |
This table shows the conditional tenses of Primal verbs, describing what would happen if some other condition did not prevail. It is also sometimes used to stand in for "could," though not always.
