Noun class
Masculine SG - do 'to see (by a male human)'
Masculine PL b(a)- badó 'to see (by a male humans')
Feminine SG i- idó 'to see (by a female)
Feminine PL r(a)- radó 'to see (by a females)'
Infinitive has no noun class affixes.
Voice
Active - doh 'to see'
Passive -(a)g- dógah 'to be seen'
Causative -(a)ł- dółah 'to show'
*Agent of passive voice is marked with Dative case.
*Agent of causative voice is marked with Dative case, and causee is in Nominative.
Constructions similar to voice
Reflexive se se doh 'to see self'
Reciprocal selda selda doh 'to see each other'
Impersonal construction (without agent)
Impersonal construction is created by passive voice and suffix -ia instead agentive pronouns:
dogia 'is seen'
Tense
Past -(a)n- don 'see (in past)'
Present - do 'see (in present, now)'
Future -(a)s dos 'see (in future)'
Aspect
Imperfective - doh 'to see (action is not performed)'
Perfective -(a)t dótah 'to see (action is performed)'
Perfect -(a)ṣ dóṣah 'to see (action have a result)'
Habitual have periphrastic construction: a gerund in imperfective aspect + dúh 'to be'
me dóni du 'I am seeing many times/regularly'
Mood
Indicative -
Inferential -(a)l dol 'probably see'
Imperative -o doo 'do!'
Optative -iee doiee 'may see'
Negation
Normal negative na na doh not to see
Prohibitive negative ma ma doo do not see!
Volition
Performed volition is created with modal verb uaárah 'to want (and volitioned action is/was achieved')
Unperformed volition is created with modal verb lásah 'to want (and volitioned action is/was not achieved')
Verbs don't have conjugation for person as synthetic category.
Non-finite forms
Adjectivals
Perfect -(a)ṣ + hoo doṣ hoo
Perfective -at + hoo dot hoo
Imperfective -0 + hoo do hoo
Adverbials
Perfect -(a)ṣ + hee doṣ hee
Perfective -at + hee dot hee
Imperfective -0 + hee do hee
Infinitive
-(a)h doh 'to see' ḥiéthah 'to grow'
Gerund
-(a)ni doni 'seeing' ḥiéthani 'growing'
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