Editing Polabian language (section)

====Tense====
Polabian verbs may inflect for present [[Tense (grammar)|tense]], future tense and three forms of the past tense: [[imperfect]], [[aorist]], as well as two [[Perfect (grammar)|perfect]] tenses, called perfect I and perfect II.{{sfn|Polański|2010|pp=122—125}}

The stress in present tense verbs always falls on the penultimate syllable, with the exception of verbs with enclitics, in which the stress goes to the last syllable. This type of stress explains the presence of conjugations formed with ''-ĕ-''||''-i-'' (from *''-e-'' ) and with ''-o-''||''-ă-'' (from *''-a(je)-''). The alternation in the verbs of these conjugations of full vowels and reduced vowels depends both on the presence or absence of enclitics, and on the presence of consonants or whole syllables after the vowel. The differences in the types of conjugations concern only the forms of the 1st person singular.
{|
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{| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse;text-align:center;"
 ! style="width:100px" rowspan="2" |Person
 ! colspan="3" |Present conjugation type I (''-ĕ-'' : ''-i-'')
 |-
 ! style="width:70px" |singular
 ! style="width:70px" |plural
 ! style="width:70px" |dual	
 |-
 ! First person
 | ''-ą''
 | ''-mĕ''
 | ''–''
 |-
 ! Second person
 | ''-s''
 | ''-tĕ''
 | ''–''
 |-
 ! Third person
 | ''-Ø''
 | ''-ą''
 | ''-tă : -to''
 |}
 |valign="top"|
{| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse;text-align:center;"
 ! style="width:100px" rowspan="2" |Person
 ! colspan="3" |Present conjugation type II (''-o-'' : ''-ă-'')
 |-
 ! style="width:70px" |Singular
 ! style="width:70px" |Plural
 ! style="width:70px" |Dual 	
 |-
 ! First person
 | ''-m''
 | ''-mĕ''
 | ''–''
 |-
 ! Second person
 | ''-s''
 | ''-tĕ''
 | ''–''
 |-
 ! Third person
 | ''-Ø''
 | ''-ą''
 | ''-tă : -to''
 |}
|}

The future tense is formed by adding the auxiliary verb ''cą'' (“I want”) to the [[infinitive]] of the main verb of the present tense form: ''ci sneg ai̯t'' (“it will snow”), ''vån ci-să sḿot'' (“he will laugh”). According to T. Lehr-Spławiński, A. E. Suprun and some other scholars, forms of the future tense could also be formed with the auxiliary verb ''met'' (“to have”): ''joz mom sijot'' (“I will sew”), K. Polyansky considered the verb ''met'' in these cases is a modal verb  - “I must sew.”

The use of the imperfect ''joz tех'' (“I wanted”), ''mes'' (“had”), ''ni-băs'' (“I wasn't”) and the aorist (''sådĕ'' (“went”), ''våzą'' (“took”), ''påci'' (“fell”)) attested by a few examples.

The perfect I tense is formed by adding the past participle form with *''-lъ'' from the main verb and the present tense form of the verb “to be”: ''ją plokol'' (“cried”), ''ją våi̯ai̯dål'' (“went out”). Not many such complex perfect forms are attested, and were replaced by forms formed by combining participial forms with their corresponding personal pronouns: ''joz plokol'' (“I cried”), ''joz sijol'' (“I sat down”), ''vån jedål'' (“he ate”). The perfect II was probably formed under the influence of the perfect of the German language (formed using the verbs haben (“to have”) or sein (“to be”): ''ich habe geschrieben'' (“I wrote”)), as in Polabian it is also formed by the combination of the auxiliary verbs ''met'' (“to have”) and ''båi̯t'' (“to be”) and the passive participle: ''vån mo nodenă'' (“he found”), ''ją våpodenă'' (“fell”), ''ją ai̯ḿartĕ'' (“died”).