Súiⱥcúili verbs

Conjugation

The citation form of any verb (which appears in dictionaries) ends in -ilun. This ending changes depending on the form.

The main verb in a clause is conjugated as follows:

The subjunctive, conditional, and imperative forms use the second form of the word; the indicative uses the first form. The subjunctive pro-drop form is used if the subject pronoun is dropped.

The subjunctive mood is used in clauses (mostly dependent clauses) that the speaker is not asserting as being true, and is used with some other verb, conjunction, or particle, indicating what the speaker is saying (e.g., 'not', 'if', the question particle). The conditional form is used for the result of counterfactual conditionals (similar to "would" in English).

Other forms of the verb are treated as follows [TODO are all these forms used?]:

• The infinitive of a verb ends in -ilu and is treated as a brown-eyed noun. (The u is indefinite singular ending, and may be changed after certain verbs.) When a verb is used as an infinitive, all adverbs and the object go before the verb and prepositional phrases go after. The verb and adverbs change case like a noun depending on where in the sentence it's used (generally using the second form), but any objects it has change case only by how they're related to the infinitive verb (i.e., if "to eat a cookie" is used as the object of a verb, "eat" changes to second form, but "cookie" is second form because it's the object of eat).
• To form a participle, add -inun to the end of the verb; this is treated as an adjective (-un is the suffix, which can change). Any subjects, objects, prepositional phrases, or adverbs describing the participle go before it. It may be used with lilun to form the progressive tense.
• A participle to describe repeating actions (e.g., "I eat every day") can be formed by repeating the last syllable before the -inun, starting at the last vowel (if the word ends in a vowel, start one letter before). It is treated like the ordinary participle.
• A passive form of the verb can be formed by adding ce- or a preposition to the beginning of the participle or infinitive. This participle may have a noun in the first form before it.

To form the past tense, -ip- is added before any ending.

Conjugation of lilun

The verb lilun (to be) is conjugated as follows:

Infinitive: lilun, lipilun

Participle: linun, celinun, lipinun, celipinun

Present tense:

Past tense:

Example conjugation

The tenses of the verb rihilun (to do) with the brown-eyed subject arā may be formed as follows:

• simple present (it does): ri arā
• simple past (story) (it did): rihip arā
• present continuous (it's doing): il arā rehen rehu
• past continuous (it used to do): ip arā rehen rehu
• past perfect (it had done): par arā rehilu