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The pluperfect tense formed by taking the stem of the perfect, e.g. خورده (xorde), adding بود (bud), and finally adding the personal endings: 'خورده بودم' (xorde budam), 'I had eaten'. In the third person singular, بود bud is added (with no ending).
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Often an aorist is equivalent to an English pluperfect tense, for example after () "when" or in relative clauses in sentences such as the following: : Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.2.9 : : When they had dined, he led the army out. : Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.9 : : He ordered me to give him the letter which I had written.
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There are about ten tenses in all. The greatest variety is shown in tenses referring to past events. A series of past tenses (past simple, imperfect, and pluperfect) is matched by a corresponding series of perfect tenses (perfect simple, perfect continuous, and perfect pluperfect — the last of these made by adding a perfect ending to the pluperfect tense). These perfect tenses are used sometimes much as the English perfect tense (e.g.
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The prohibitative is formed by the particle ani/ani preceding Conjugation III. Verbal forms can be converted into the heads of subordinate clauses through the addition of the suffix -a, much as in Sumerian: siyan in-me kuši-hš(i)-me-a “the temple which they did not build”. -ti/-ta can be suffixed to verbs, chiefly of conjugation I, expressing possibly a meaning of anteriority (perfect and pluperfect tense). The negative particle is in-; it takes nominal class suffixes that agree with the subject of attention (which may or may not coincide with the grammatical subject): first-person singular in-ki, third-person singular animate in-ri, third-person singular inanimate in-ni/in-me.
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