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 ===== In Nûrlâm =====
-Nûrlâm distinguishes only 3 tenses: Past, Present and Future used exactly as their names suggest. So the closest examples from real world are Slavic languages. [[hurrian_hypothesis|Hurrian language]], by which Black Speech probably was inspired, also is similar in tenses (however it's verb grammar is far more complex and not fully deciphered yet). Various forms of English tenses are expressed by [[grammar_aspect|aspect]] in Nûrlâm, however Present Perfect is always translated as Past tense and Present Perfect Continuous can be translated either as Present or Past tense. Sometimes English Present tense expresses future action, e.g. after prepositions and adverbs like "when", "until", "whenever"; all of these should be translated into Nûrlâm's Future tense if the action didn't happened yet. When translating back from Black Speech into English, please keep mind that aspect indicators are optional specially when additional time markers are provided in [[syntax_adverbials|adverbial]]. So past form of verb without suffix of aspect can be either simple, perfect or continuous (see example in table below). In [[syntax_analytic|analytic]] version of colloquial language there is special form of future tense exists, formed by the verb "to be" in future tense (kub) plus main predicate in infinitive, which is similar to Slavic languages and generally corresponds to English future continuous tense (Takub ukhut = He will be walking). All verbs have the same suffixes expressing one time except the verb [[verb_to_be|"kul" (to be)]]. So there are no distinction between "weak" and "strong" verbs, all verbs belong to one conjugation class.
+Nûrlâm distinguishes only 3 tenses: Past, Present and Future used exactly as their names suggest. So the closest examples from real world are Slavic languages. [[hurrian_hypothesis|Hurrian language]], by which Black Speech probably was inspired, also is similar in tenses (however it's verb grammar is far more complex and not fully deciphered yet). Various forms of English tenses are expressed by [[grammar_aspect|aspect]] in Nûrlâm, however Present Perfect is always translated as Past tense and Present Perfect Continuous can be translated either as Present or Past tense. Sometimes English Present tense expresses future action, e.g. after prepositions and adverbs like "when", "until", "whenever"; all of these should be translated into Nûrlâm's Future tense if the action didn't happened yet. When translating back from Black Speech into English, please keep mind that aspect indicators are optional specially when additional time markers are provided in [[syntax_adverbials|adverbial]]. So past form of verb without suffix of aspect can be either simple, perfect or continuous (see example in table below). In [[syntax_analytic|analytic]] version of colloquial language there is special form of future tense exists, formed by the verb "to be" in future tense (kub) plus main predicate in infinitive, which is similar to Slavic languages and generally corresponds to English future continuous tense (Takub ukhut = He will be walking). All verbs have the same suffixes expressing one time except the verb [[verb_to_be|“kul” (to be)]]. So there are no distinction between "weak" and "strong" verbs, all verbs belong to one conjugation class.
 ==== Suffix table ====

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