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Making Verbs Past Tense. By now you know the different songs to remember the endings of the verbs. Now we’re going to work on how to use these songs and endings. puls. a. t. What if I took off the ending?. Let’s start with the verb. Then I’d have the base of the word.
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By now you know the different songs to remember the endings of the verbs. Now we’re going to work on how to use these songs and endings.
puls a t What if I took off the ending? Let’s start with the verb Then I’d have the base of the word. I can add on present tense endings.
puls a Like These:
puls o “I punch”
puls as “you punch”
puls at “he punches”
puls amus “we punch”
puls atis “y’all punch”
puls ant a “they punch”
puls a Or I can start talking about things that happened in the past by using the Imperfect Perfect and tenses.
Imperfect puls a bat bant Imperfect
Imperfect puls a bat “he was punching” bat bant “he was ___ing” “they were ___ing”
Imperfect puls a bant “they were punching” bant “they were ___ing”
Imperfect Is formed by adding the IMPERFECT ENDINGS ( ) to the base of the verb.
Imperfect Translates like the verb was happening and happening and happening and happening in the past.
Perfect The perfect case is a little different… puls a v it usually adds a “Perfect Signifier”: ē v s u x (for pulsat it’s a “v”) before it adds the ending:
Perfect puls a v it erunt
Perfect puls a v it “he punched” it erunt “he ___ed” “they ___ed”
Perfect puls a v erunt “they punched” erunt “they ___ed”
Perfect Is formed by adding the perfect signifiers (ē,v,s,u,x) and the PERFECT ENDINGS ( ) to the base of the verb.
Perfect Translates as a simple snapshot of the past: Snap! that just happened. in the past.