Aluric verbs have a base form (present active infinitive) that is marked with the ending -â (nasal a). Only two verbs end in anything else in the infinitive, both highly irregular (delzyû - to be; and móvrî - to be able).
To conjugate the verb, drop the -â, and add the appropriate endings. This is, of course, where it starts to get complicated.
First off, there are three voices, active, passive, and reflexive. Each voice is marked by a particular characterizing vowel, á/â for the active, e/é/ê for the passive, ù for the reflexive. Thus, the present infinitives for kelyâ (to do) are:
kelyâ - to do; kelyê - to be done; kelyùn - to do to/for oneself.
Note that the reflexive infinitive has no nasal, as there is no direct nasal for the ù vowel.
Next, there are three time markers, which can combine allowing for six times in all. The markers are:
These, combined with the infinitive markers (-â/-ê/-ùn) give the following infinitive forms for kelyâ:
The participles come next, with the basic form being created by dropping the -â of the infinitive and adding -ázályën for the active, -ezelyën for the passive, and -ùzùlyën for the reflexive. These can also be used with the time markers, allowing for six participles in active, passive, or reflexive voices. Thus:
It should be pointed out here that the passive participle is often replaced by the
adjectival form, created by adding -sá or -ásá to the
root.
Obviously at this point it is necessary to point out that not all of these forms are in
everyday use for all verbs, although technically all are correct and can be used if the
context warrants it.
Also, there exist "gerundive" forms, using -óznáyën or -ónázës as the ending. These are intended to be used when the infinitive needs to be in a case other than the nominative within a sentence, but in practice they are little used and the infinitive is simply considered indeclinable. There is no observable difference between the two forms, although the former seems to be preferred.
We now move on to the personal endings inside each time. Within each "time" there are three tenses, an indicative, a conditional, and a continuous/imperative. The indicative is the form normally used, the conditional is employed when the subject is hypothetical, not factual. The continuous/imperative is used two different ways. In the present time, it functions almost exclusively as an imperative tense. In all other times, it is more of a continuous tense, expressing what is covered by the Spanish or French imperfect tense, implying continuousness in the action.
The personal endings for the active form of each tense are as follows. Note that there are five persons and two numbers. Note also that the plural form is largely created by adding -á, often with a -y- glide, to the singular. In the conditional, which already ends in á, this is shown by nasalizing the á into â in the plural. Finally, notice that other than the third person indicative (he/she/it) there is the characteristic vowel of the active form, -á-.
Indicative:
| I: -álÿ | We: -ályá |
| you (sing. familiar): -áyëv | you (plur.familiar): -áyëvá |
| you (sing. polite): -ályëv | you (plur. polite): -ályëvá |
| you (sing. insult): -án | you (plur. insult): -áná |
| he/she/it: -ô | they: -ónyá |
Conditional:
| I: -álsvá | We: -álsvâ |
| you (sing. familiar): -áyevá | you (plur. familiar): -áyevâ |
| you (sing. polite): -ályevá | you (plur. polite): -ályevâ |
| you (sing. insult): -áná | you (plur. insult): -ánâ |
| he/she/it: -álná | they: -álnâ |
Imperative/Continuous
| I: -áy | We: -áyá |
| you (sing. familiar): -áyv | you (plur. familiar): -áyvá |
| you (sing. polite): -álv | you (plur. polite): -álvá |
| you (sing. insult): -án | you (plur. insult): -áná |
| he/she/it: -áyn | they: -áyná |
Now for a word about how these combine to form the various tenses. As indicated in the discussion on infinitives, by removing the -â of the present active infinitive, you get the root or base of the verb. For the present tense, simply add the personal endings for the tenses to this root. For the past, future, perfect, past perfect, future perfect, add the appropriate markers between the root and the personal ending, as demonstrated with the infinitives. Some examples:
This same method holds true for the passive and reflexive forms, although the characteristic vowel of the personal ending changes. Thus:
Based on the above, we can create the following forms:
This last example illustrates the agglutinative nature of Aluric verbs. It parses out to:
Finally, there is one more added complication that permeates all tense forms except the infinitives and participles. Each of the three tense forms, in every voice, has a perfective version, characterized by adding the vowel -û (plural -un) to the end of the personal ending. The perfective form is used when it is important to indicate that the event is a singular one, and is not or will not still continue. Thus, kelyásváyû - I have been doing (but am not now), or kelyelényû (it has been done, once and it's over with). The personal endings in the perfective are as follows:
Examples: