The Past Perfect Tense (Intransitive)
For intransitive verbs with past stems ending in a consonant (like hatin > hat-), the past perfect tense,which is functionally equivalent to the English past perfect (‘I had come,you had gone’), is formed from the past stem + i + the past tense of bûn ‘to be.’ Verbs with past stems ending in a vowel (like bûn > bû) form the past perfect tense from the simple stem + the past tense of bûn.
- hâtibûm You Came for me
- hâtibûyan You came for them
- hâtibûy(t) You came for him/her
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