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čatpa	‘to break’	čats	‘broke’
rulba	‘to rot’	ruls	‘rotted’
p^helba	‘to increase’	p^hels	‘increased’
˛iba	‘to chew’	zips	‘chewed’
zguwa	‘to bend’	zgus	‘bent’
koqpa	‘to snatch’	koqs	‘snatched’

The allomorph -Ę is lexically conditioned.

c^halba	‘to overflow’	c^hal	‘overflowed’
k^horba	‘to wander’	k^hor	‘wandered’
k^holba	‘to get ill’	k^hol	‘got ill’
norba	‘to get confused’	nor	‘got confused’
t^hukpa	‘to meet’	tuk	‘met’

3.2.2.1.2.

Present tense

Present tense indicates that the action takes place when the utterance is uttered. In Purki, the suffix -t is used to denote the present tense.

inzarba	‘to agree’	inzarbat	‘agree’
bapspa	‘to get down’	bapspat	‘get down’
č^he:spa	‘to believe’	č^he:spat	‘believe’
tama	‘to give’	tamat	‘give’
skilba	‘to bend’	skilbat	‘bent’
bima	‘to get out’	bimat	‘get out’
hla	‘to weave’	hlat	‘weave’
čaqpa	‘bo break’	čaqpat	‘break’
kaba	‘to bury’	kabat	‘bury’
bospa	‘to chirp’	bospat	‘chirp’
yoma	‘to come’	yomat	‘come’
skolba	‘to cook’	skolbat	‘cook’

3.2.2.1.3.

Future tense

Future tense may be defined as indicating the time precedent to the time of the utterance. In certain languages, where there are two way distinction of tense system, present and future tenses are included under non past category.

In Purki, future tense morpheme has two allomorphsča:in and -et. The occurrance of these allomorphs is predicted on the basis of the specification of verbs as (+ Transitive). If the verb is intransitive, ča:in occurs as the future tense suffix- If the verb is transitive, both ča:in andča:in and -et occur as the future tense suffix depending on the subject noun phrase of the sentence.5 -et occurs whenever the subject noun phrase is the first person. If the subject noun phrase is either second person or third person, then ča:in occurs as the future tense suffix.

p^hama	‘to throw’
as	p^haet
1	2
I	will throw
1	2
k^heras	p^hača:in
1	2

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