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Present 



Preterit 



Type 



Meaning 



Tense-Mode Suffixes 



In final position in the verbal complex and immediately following 

 the verbal stem stand one or more suffixes. These express princi- 

 pally qualifications of tense but a considerable number of them 

 indicate various modal distinctions. They are invariably suffixed 

 in the full (present) verbal stem. 



