
Conlangery #98: Menya (natlang)
Conlangery Podcast
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What Is a Medial Verb?
The three degrees of past tense... That's not that unusual. Hopi has a little particle which is usually translated as something like in vain but you can also use it with an impersonal statement, like it rained in vain actually means it was supposed to rain but didn't. There are two futures but I don't understand what the difference is between them. The frustrated indicates an unfulfilled intention. Sometimes they're marked with in the turkey languages and some call these things converbs.
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