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Conlangery #107: Moten

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The Future Tense in Basque

In Basque there is this one little thing that you form the future tense by taking your, the normal form of the verb so the, the, it's the participle. So that's what we call it the participle in Basque and put it in the locative genitive and add it to the, to the Auxiliaries. And that's the way you form thefuture. But then I discovered that some dialects of Basque use another few suffix, which happens to be the possessive genitive. It really is a genitive form added to the auxiliary of the part of the verbadded to the auxiliary that forms the future. That's where the idea came from

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