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With
‘ka’ suffix detached from such infinitives as
‘nadakka’, ‘padikka’, etc. : |
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e.g.
vƒ‰ga ! live ! |
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With
‘i’ suffix derived from the auxiliary verbal noun iyal,giving :
‘iyal-iyal-iya-i, …yal-…yar. |
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e.g.
vƒ‰i !, live ! |
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The
optative form is also used to express politeness. |
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e.g.
varuga !, please come, condescend to come. |
(1) The common future finite form of the
auxiliary verbs k‡du, to join, to be achieved,
mudi, to end, to be finished, and padu, to happen, ‘to be caught, suffixed
to the infinitive.
padu is impersonal, governed by the instrumental
case and used always in the negative at present.
e.g. šeyyakk‡dum,
(I, you, he, etc.) can do.
e‰da
mudiyum, can write.
ennƒl
e‰undirukkappada villai, I cannot get up.
(2) The conjugated forms of the auxiliary
verbs kil, to be able, and mƒ——u,
to finish, to kill, causative of mƒ˜, to
die, to be finished, suffixed to the infinitive :
mƒ——u
is used only in the future tense at present.
e.g. šeyya
ki‹Šen, I was able to do.
šeyya
kiŠki‹Š,,n,
I am able to do.
kil, has became obsolete in the colloquial
dialect.
š)eyyamƒ——uv„n,
I can do.
There
are three tenses in Tamil, viz., Past, Present and Future, and each of
them comprises four forms as in English, viz., Indefinite, Continuous,
Perfect and Perfect Continuous.
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