Verbs (Northern dialect)

Verbs in East Cree appear in various forms. Let us look at how these forms are organized in East Cree.

Cree Verbs

• Transitivity
• Gender (animate-inanimate)

Cree verb classes

• VII
• VTI
• VTA
• VAI
• Participles (nominalizations)

Cree verb Inflection

• Person inflection
• Orders (Imperative, Independent, Conjunct)
• Conjugations (#01, #02, #03, #05, #06, #10, #11, #12a, #12b, #14, #15, #16, #17a, #17b)
• Initial change

Cree Verb stems

• VII stems
• VTI stems
• VTA stems
• VAI stems

Preverbs

Verb syntax

• Passives
• Unspecified actors
• Impersonal constructions
• Relationals
• Obviative -im form in TA verbs
• Questions

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