====== Infinitive vs. Gerundive ======
^ Feature ^  Infinitive  ^  Gerundive  ^
| forming suffix |  -ut  |  -at  |
^  Grammatical categories  ^^^
| Future tense |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
| Passive voice |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>((should be additionally marked with object in instrumental case))  |
| Mood |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((not directly, only together with modal verbs as part of compound predicate))  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>((only some modalities expressing actions that didn't happened yet))  |
^  Roles in the sentence  ^^^
| Subject |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |
| Object  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |
| Main verb of compound predicate |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |
| Main verb of impersonal sentence |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>((depends on context))  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>((depends on context))  |
| Predicative((adjectival phrase which is a part of predicate, usually after the verb "to be" = "kul")) |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |
| Attributive((adjectival phrase modifying the object or subject)) |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |
| Adverbial |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
^  Semantics  ^^^
| purpose ("in order to" either implied or explicit, answers to questions with "why?") |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |
| intention ("be about to", "be going to") |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |
| necessity (after impersonal sentences like "it's necessary" or "it's important", without modal verbs)  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |
| habits ("used to") |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((Nûrlâm uses habitual aspect of verb in past tense))  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((Nûrlâm uses habitual aspect of verb in past tense))  | 
| expression of strong advice in current circumstances "had better" and personal preferences "would rather", do not have direct correspondence in Nûrlâm, but infinitives and gerundives may be used to translate them |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((not directly, main verb in infinitive becomes the subject: "To (do smth.) is better for ..."))  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>((not directly, used only when the phrase is transformed into impersonal sentence "It is better for ... to (do smth.)..."))  |
| commands and strong advices to explicit person, e.g. after verbs like "command", "order", "demand", "insist", "request", "recommend", "propose", "suggest", "expect", "advice" etc. (Jussive modality) |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
| desires and wishes to another person to do an action, e.g. after verbs like "want", "wish", "expect", "wait" smb. to do smth. |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  | 
| conditional phrases like "to be honest", "to think" with conjunction "if" (usually omitted in English) and other parts (when future tense is implied)  |  <wrap no>✘</wrap>  |  <wrap yes>✔</wrap>  |