For other persons, the subjunctive present is used: parli! ("let him/her speak!"), parlem! ("let us speak!"), parlin! ("let them speak!"). The imperative present ( present d'imperatiu), with two forms, exists outside the imperfective–perfective contrast: one for second-person singular and the other for second-person plural ( parla!, "you speak!" parleu!, "you speak!"). The other tense expressing the remote past is the simple preterite ( pretèrit perfet simple), now used almost exclusively in writing: parlí ("I spoke"), parlares ("you (singular informal) spoke"). The normative Central Catalan and Valencian forms of anar used to form this tense are outlined in the table below.įorms of anar used to form the passat perifràstic The periphrastic preterite may also be used in the subjunctive mood, but this only occurs as a literary tense and sporadically in any case instead, the simple past subjunctive is normally used. As a consequence of always using va-, vau/ vàreu and vam/ vàrem are used to form the periphrastic past, instead of aneu and anem. This special form of anar always uses the stem va- and can also use the affix - re- when the regular preterite suffix corresponding to the desired person has it. The more common is the periphrastic preterite ( pretèrit perfet perifràstic), a compound tense formed with conjugations of a special present indicative of anar ("go", used exclusively in the formation of this tense) followed by the infinitive of the conjugated verb ( vaig parlar, "I spoke" vas parlar or vares parlar, "you spoke"). The perfective tense in the indicative mood has two remote-past forms, analogous to the English simple past. Subjunctive pluperfect ( pretèrit plusquamperfet de subjuntiu), e.g.hagi parlat ("that I have spoken, me to have spoken") Subjunctive preterite perfect ( pretèrit perfet de subjuntiu), e.g.Past conditional ( condicional compost), e.g.Pluperfect ( pretèrit plusquamperfet d'indicatiu) (cf.
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