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=== Verbs === Tewa has 15 types of verbs, and a few example verbs and their conjugations are shown below. {| class="wikitable" ! Meaning ! Habitual ! Progressive ! Completive ! Potential ! Imperative ! Combining ! Stative |- |divide |wiyende' |wiyende' |wiye |wiyé |wíyé |wiye |wiʔyen |- |enter |cʔuyaʔ |curemaen |cʔú |cʔún |cuwave |cure | |- |get (pl. obj.) |hónde' |hónde' |hógi |hón |hó'gí |xon |xo'gin |- |stir |wí:re' |wí:re' |wí: |wí: |wí: |wí: |wíʔin |- |return |bunde' |bummá: |bun |bu:n |bun |bun |buʔun |- |bite |xunde' |xunde' |xu:gi: |xu:n |xú'gí |xu:gi: |xu'gin |} Verbs can be divided into two classes, S and A, standing for stative and active, based of the pronomial prefixes which they contain. In general, S verbs deal with identity, quality, feeling, condition, position, and motion. Class A verbs are, in general, transitive verbs. ==== Verb affixes ==== All known verb affixes are included in the chart below, showing where the affixes fall in particular constructions of words. {| class="wikitable" ! 6 ! 5 ! 4 ! 3 ! 2 ! 1 ! Root ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 |- |ti |wí |VP |pi |ra |wé: | |ri: |í |pí |ri |raʔ |ân |kun |ho' |- | | | | | | | |ri' | | |an |á |á |waen |bo |- | | | | | | | | | | |waen |bo |há' | |an |- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |há' |} These affixes are used to delineate tense, subject, negation, and emphasis.
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