"FER" (TO DO / TO MAKE): SIMPLE TENSES
It is one of the most commonly used irregular verbs. It means "to do" (as an ordinary verb) or "to make". Apart from that, it may be used to avoid repetition of a previous ordinary verb (like auxiliary "do").
EXAMPLES:
Qué febaz con ixos trastes? (What were
you doing with those tools?)
A yaya mos fazié lamins (Grandma made
sweets to us)
Cuanto más escribe, pior lo fa (The more
he writes, the worse he does)
INDICATIVE:
| SIMPLE PRESENT | |
| foi
fas fa femos fez fan |
I do
you do he/she/it does we do you do they do |
The subject of the verb needn't appear in Aragonese
as we can deduce it from the endings (person and number morphemes).
| SIMPLE PAST | ||
| feba
febas feba fébanos febaz feban |
fazié
faziés fazió faziemos faziez abioron |
I did
you did he/she/itdid we did you did they did |
-There are two past tenses: the first one with
a non-perfective aspect, the second with a perfective aspect.
-Attention should be paid to the first person
plural ending -nos (instead of the usual -mos) in the simple
past with non-perfective aspect.
-The third person plural form abioron
of the simple tast with perfective aspect is often pronounced (and even
written) abión, due to a general phaenomenon of weakening
and subsequent dropping of intervocalic "r".
-In Eastern Aragonese, to express the perfective
aspect, they use a periphrastic form made up of the simple present of the
berb "anar" plus the infinitive: boi fer, bas fer, ba fer, bam fer, baz
fer, ban fer.
| SIMPLE FUTURE | |
| feré
ferás ferá feremos ferez ferán |
I shall / will do
you will do he/she/it will do we shall / will do you will do they will do |
| SIMPLE CONDITIONAL | |
| ferba
ferbas ferba férbanos ferbaz ferban |
I should / would do
you would do he/she/it would do we shall / would do you would do they would do |
-Attention should be paid to the first person
plural ending -nos (instead of the usual -mos).
-Under Castillian influence, the forms "fería,
ferías, fería, feríanos, feriaz, ferían" are
widely spread.
SUBJUNCTIVE:
| SIMPLE PRESENT | |
| faiga
faigas faiga faigamos faigaz faigan |
I do
you do he/she/it do we do you do they do |
| SIMPLE PAST | |
| fese
feses fese fésenos fesez fesen |
I did
you did he/she/it did we did you did they did |
Attention should be paid to the first person plural
ending -nos (instead of the usual -mos).
| IMPERATIVE | |
| fe
fez |
do!
do! |
| INFINITIVE | |
| fer | to do |
Its main use is as a verbal noun. It may be used
to form noun clauses but its subject will be the same of the main verb.
| GERUND | |
| fendo | doing |
It's mainly used to form adverbial clauses or
phrases.
| PAST PARTICIPLE | |
| feito | done |
-This is a strong form coming from latin "factum";
there is no weak form *faziu.
-Its uses are the same as in English, i.e., as
an adjective, to form the perfect tenses of the verb, to form adjective
clauses or phrases.
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Fa plus an expression of time is the equivalent to "ago", e.g: fa muito tiempo (long time ago); plegoron fa tres diyas (they arrived three days ago).
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Thre are a lot of verbal idioms made up of fer plus a noun, e.g: fer mal (to feel pain, ache, hurt, damage); fer goyo (to make merry, be glad); fer-se biello (to grow old, get older); fer prebo (to suit, fit, please); fer a figa (to make fun of)...
