Verbs in Meriteji are mostly agglutinative with a very clearly designed set of endings based on mood, tense, and aspect, in that order, plus a few extra non-finite constructions. Verbs have no association with their subject, and as such do not conjugate by number or person. All verbs fall into four categories, marked by the glide at the end of their infinitive, and are named:

-ye*,* -we*,* -re*,* and -le.

Each one suggests something about how the verb works:

• -ye verbs are always transitive.
• -we verbs are always intransitive.
• -re verbs are always both transitive and intransitive.
• -le verbs have no association and can be any of the above.

Each mood, tense, and aspect has an associated ending for each verb type, however due to sound assimilation and other phonetic rules, each specific combination has some variation, and so it is more practical to present each combination rather than individual rules.

There are 4 moods:

• Indicative:
  • This is the most common mood. It is used for statements as facts and general ideas. It can be used independently of other verbs.
• Inferential:
  • This mood is used when information is not directly recieved, and at least some kind of interpretation or assumption is implied. It can also be used inside of
• Subjunctive:
  • The subjunctive is used for wishes, desires, hypotheticals, opinions. It must be paired with an indicative or inferential verb in some capacity to specify the manner of subjunctivity.
• Imperative:
  • This is used for direct commands or calls for action. Unlike all other moods, the imperative does not have tense or aspect. It follows different rules and behaves more like a non-finite construction than a conjugated verb.

The tenses are past, present, and future.

There are 3 aspects:

• Perfective (sometimes, incorrectly, called Perfect):
  • This aspect refers to simple events that occur as a whole, or implying completion. There is no emphasis placed on the progression of an event, or the repeated or habitual nature of an action. Aspect is fully optional—defaulting to perfective—an action could be expanded to habitual or progressive states, but the speaker can, in many cases, choose not to explicitly specify.
• Habitual:
  • The habitual aspect implies that an event occurs, occurred, or will occur on more than one occasion.
• Progressive:
  • The progressive aspect places emphasis to the duration, progression, and continuation of an action.

<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_green.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_green.svg" width="40px" /> Not all combinations are used with all verbs, and some combinations overall are much more common than others. Once the mood is chosen, each movement from the center (Present Perfective) adds another ending or complication. This makes the Present Perfective the default tense and aspect.

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Conjugation

All conjugations and constructions are formed by tacking endings to the stem. The stem is formed from the infinitive, minus the glide and vowel e, leaving the beginning of the verb plus the onset consonant in the final syllable. If this consonant is null, then t- must be added. These verbs are known as t-stem verbs.

Indicative