Ch 5_The Futue and Imperfect Tenses

Question 1

What is the future tense sign?

Answer 1

1. -bi-

2. placed in-between the present stem and the personal endings

Question 2

What is the imperfect tense sign?

Answer 2

1. -ba-

2. placed in-between the present stem and the personal endings

Question 3

What are the tenses that make up the present system?

Answer 3

1. present tense
2. future tense
3. imperfect tense

Question 4

What are all the tense formatives for the future tense?

(make it sound like baby talk?

Answer 4

bō/bi/bi/bi/bi/bu

Question 5

What are all the tense formatives for the imperfect tense?

(make it sound like baby talk?

Answer 5

ba/bā/bā/bā/bā/ba

notiece that the first person singular and third person plural only have a short a, not a lengthened ā like the rest

Question 6

Vowels that are normally long are regularly shortened before what letters?

Answer 6

m, r, t, nt, or before another vowel

Question 7

Remember bi as a future tense marker because it is like what future tense helping word?

Answer 7

will

they have the “i” in common

Question 8

Remember ba as an imperfect tense marker because it is like what past tense helping word?

Answer 8

was

they have the “a” in common

Question 9

How should the future tense typically be translated?

Answer 9

with the “will” helping verb

Question 10

How should the imperfect tense typically be translated?

Answer 10

1. I loved,
2. I was loving
3. I used to love