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REGULAR VERBS: SIMPLE TENSES

There are three conjugations in Aragonese, characterized by the infinitive ending:
First conjugation: -ar
Second conjgation: -er
Third conjugation: -ir

Those verbs whose conjugation follows a model or paradigm without any exceptions are called regular verbs. We shall take as models:
First conjugation: trobar (to find, meet)
Second conjgation: meter (to put)
Third conjugation: bibir (to live)

INDICATIVE:
 

SIMPLE PRESENT
trobo trobas troba trobamos trobaz troban	meto metes mete metemos metez meten	bibo bibes bibe bibimos bibiz biben

The Aragonese Simple Present is used to express:
-habitual actions
-current, developing actions
-"historic present"

Examples:
Biengo astí toz os chuebes (I come here every Thursday)
Qué fas? (What are you doing?)
Zésar muere en o 44 antis de Cristo (Caesar dies in 44 before Christ)
 

SIMPLE PAST perfective
trobé trobés trobó trobemos trobez troboron	metié metiés metió metiemos metiez metioron	bibié bibiés bibió bibiemos bibiez bibioron

-This tense has a perfective aspect, that is, it expresses an action carried out in the past, much the same as the main use of English Simple Past.
-Third person plural forms are often reduced in their inflection to -ón / -ión, due to a process of weakening and dropping of the intervocalic /r/ and subsequent assimilation (trobón, metión, bibión).
-In Eastern Aragonese, they use a periphrastic form made up of the simple present of the berb "anar" plus the infinitive: boi trobar, bas trobar, ba trobar, bam trobar, baz trobar, ban trobar.

Examples:
La trobé ayere (I found her yesterday)
Nunca pleguez astí (You never arrived here)
No te beyoron / beyón en a chunta (They didn't see you in the meeting)
Ixo lo ban rematar fa muito tiempo (They finished it long time ago)
 

SIMPLE PAST non-perfective
trobaba trobabas trobaba trobábanos trobabaz trobaban	meteba metebas meteba metébanos metebaz meteban	bibiba bibibas bibiba bibíbanos bibibaz bibiban

-On the contrary, this tense has a non-perfective aspect, that is, it expresses an action being developed by the time it is referred to. It conveys a meaning nearer to English Past Continuous tense or to the habitual past structure with "used to" or "would".
-Attention should be paid to the first person plural ending -nos (instead of the usual -mos).

Examples:
Allora no lo sabébanos (We didn't know that by then)
Estudeaba Dreito cuan la conoxié (She was studying Laws when I met her)
De nino chugaba en ista calle (As a child, I used to play in this street)
 

SIMPLE FUTURE
trobaré trobarás trobará trobaremos trobarez trobarán	meteré meterás meterán meteremos meterez meterán	bibiré bibirás bibirá bibiremos bibirez bibirán

-English and Aragonese usages of this tense are esentialy the same.
-Nearly all Aragonese verbs are regular in this tense, forming the future from the root of the verb (the infinitive) plus the simple present of the verb "aber".

Examples:
Maitín plegarán (They will arrive tomorrow)
No bibirás ta cutio (You won't live forever)
 

SIMPLE CONDITIONAL
trobarba trobarbas trobarba trobárbanos trobarbaz trobarban	meterba meterbas meterba metérbanos meterbaz meterban	bibirba bibirbas bibirba bibírbanos bibirbaz bibirban

-English and Aragonese usages of this tense are esentialy the same.
-Nearly all Aragonese verbs are regular in this tense, forming the future from the root of the verb (the infinitive) plus the simple past of the verb "aber", after dropping the "e-" [trobar+(e)ba > trobarba, etc].
-Attention should be paid to the first person plural ending -nos (instead of the usual -mos).
-Under Castillian influence, the forms "trobaría, trobarías, trobaría, trobaríanos, trobaríaz, trobarían / metería... / bibiría..." are widely spread.

Examples:
Me cuacarba tastar-lo (I'd like to taste it)
Dengún no poderba fer-lo millor (Nobody could do it better)

SUBJUNCTIVE:
 

SIMPLE PRESENT
trobe trobes trobe trobemos trobez troben	meta metas meta metamos metaz metan	biba bibas biba bibamos bibaz biban

Examples:
Si yo estase tu, no dizirba cosa (If I were you, I would say nothing)
Sisquiera no se faigan mal! (I wish they don't get hurt)
 

SIMPLE PAST
trobase trobases trobase trobásenos trobasez trobasen	metese meteses metese metésenos metesez metesen	bibise bibises bibise bibísenos bibisez bibisen

Examples:
Sisquiá plebese! (I wish it rained!)
Si no bibisez tan lexos... (If you didn't live so far away...)
 

IMPERATIVE
troba trobaz	mete metez	bibe bibiz

Examples:
Dixa-me estar! (Let me be!)
Traye-lo ya! (Bring it now!)
 

INFINITIVE
trobar	meter	bibir

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 (except for a few verbs of perception).

Examples:
Ye difízil de dizir (It's difficult to say)
Queremos crompar ixa casa (We want to buy that house)
No te sintié plegar (I didn't hear you come)
 

GERUND
trobando	metendo	bibindo

-It's mainly used to form adverbial clauses or phrases.
-In Eastern Aragonese, short forms (trobán, metén, bibín) are used.

Examples:
En rematando a faina, marcharemos (We'll leave when we finish the work)
Lo consiguió fochando ambute (She got it by working very hard)
 

PAST PARTICIPLE
trobau	metiu [meso]	bibiu

-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.
-Traditional forms (trobato, metito, bibito) are the most genuine and most adequated to Aragonese phonetics, but "-au", "-iu" forms are widely spread in current spoken (and even written) Aragonese because of the strong Castillian influence.
-Past Participle feminine forms are: trobada / trobata; metida / metita; bibida / bibita.
-"meso" is a strong form; its feminine is "mesa".

Examples:
Ista ye a pata crebada (This is the broken leg)
No lo eban leyiu encara (They hadn't read it yet)
Dito isto, se'n fue (Once he said this, he left)