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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)
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Proposal 3
Active participle
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
Passive participle
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
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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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Proposal 3
overlaps with proposals 1 and 2
the suffix -de is added to the stem in order to form the preterite, unless the stem ends with an unvoiced consonant, in which case -te is used, or it ends with T or D, in which case -ed is used
same usage of have as described in proposals 1 and 2
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Future
Proposal 1
Proposal 2
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)