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Tense

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There are two morphological tenses in Zomlish: past and non-past. The non-past tense is completely unmarked, whereas the past tense is marked with vowel ablaut. The final vowel of a verb is either raised or elongated (occurs when the final vowel is already a closed vowel).

Original vowel(s)

New Vowel

Example

i

iː

vimi (fly) -> vimii (flew)

u

uː

galu (learn) -> galuu (learned)

e, ø

i

gre (dig) -> gri (dug)

ɤ, o

u

kiko (have) -> kiku (had)

a

e

sigra (think) -> sigre (thought)

Most other temporal information (such as discussing the future) is conveyed by temporal adverbs.