Editing Niellim language (section)

===Verbs===
Each verb has two forms: [[indicative mood|indicative]] and [[optative mood|optative]] ("[[injunctive mood|injunctive]]" in Boyeldieu's terminology.)  They are distinguished by tonal pattern.

Verbs may be preceded by various particles to indicate [[Grammatical tense|tense]], [[Grammatical aspect|aspect]], and [[Grammatical mood|mood]]: for instance {{lang|nie|wò}} continuous, {{lang|nie|ɓə}} future, {{lang|nie|ká}} obligation.  Indirect quoted speech is preceded with the particle {{lang|nie|ɓə}} {{gloss|that}}.

Verbal nouns may be formed by changing the tone pattern and/or suffixing {{lang|nie|-li}} or {{lang|nie|-la}} (in which the ''l'' becomes ''n'' following a nasal) together with internal vowel ablaut.

Verb derivational suffixes include {{lang|nie|-n}} intensive (realized as {{lang|nie|-nì}} or {{lang|nie|-ɨ̀n}}, e.g., {{lang|nie|nun}} {{gloss|bite}} > {{lang|nie|nùnɨ̀n}} {{gloss|gnaw}}, and sometimes causing internal ablaut), and {{lang|nie|-gɨ̀}} [[mediopassive]] (sometimes {{lang|nie|-gi}} or {{lang|nie|-gu}}, rarely causes internal ablaut).