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Infinitive
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
formed by appending the suffix
-en to the stem (
sko03: and in cases where needed prepended by
tu similar to the Englisch
to)
like in German and Dutch
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Proposal 3
Open questions
Should a special infinitive marker be used like the English to (to run), German zu, Norwegian å, Swedish att, …?
Active/present participle
Can this participle be pluralized? Presumably yes, in which case this must be borne in mind when designing it.
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
Passive/past participle
Can this participle be pluralized? Presumably yes, in which case this must be borne in mind when designing it. And we should also bear in mind the morphology of the similar past/preterite form.
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
add the suffix
-d (
par11:
-'d) to the stem if it doesn't end on
d or
t; otherwise use
-ed
-
Proposal 3
Tempus (for indicative)
Present
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
Past
Proposal 1
the suffix -de is added to the stem in order to form the preterite (e.g. ik skrivde (i wrote)); if the stem already ends with d or t, use -ede instead
one uses the word for to have as auxiliary verb in the present form and the 2nd participle of the actual verb to form the perfect (e.g. ik hav skrivt (i have written))
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Proposal 2
the suffix -(e)d is added to the stem in order to form the preterite
one uses the word for to have as auxiliary verb in the present form and the 2nd participle of the actual verb to form the perfect
[if the perfect form of to have is used as the auxiliary verb, the past perfect tense is formed (e.g. Ik hadd stelld (i had placed))]
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Future
Proposal 1
formed with the the auxiliary verb for to will / to shall and the infinitive
example: ik vil lope / ik skal lope
advantage: very common in (all?) Germanic language
disadvantage: implicite, therefore likely to collide with the form it is based on
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Proposal 2
formed with the verb for to become and the active participle
example: ik verd lopend (i will run; literally i become running)
advantage: explicite and doesn't collide with existing forms
disadvantage: after having tested it on some people, it seems like it's not intuitively understandable
Proposal 3
formed with the verb for to come and/or to go and the infinitive (maybe with the preposition “to”/“til” inbetween)
example: ik kom lope / ik go lope
advantage: quite intuitively understandable and barely collides with other forms
(dis)advantage: semi-implicite
Modus
Imperative
Proposal 1
Volative
Non-second-person imperatives need to be considered, especially the first-person plural. The obvious solution is a let-like auxiliary, which could in principle be used for all persons and numbers. Example: lat os spisen (let us eat).
Subjunctive
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
Persona and Numerus
(No proposals i've seen so far have conjugation for personae and numeri)