Editing Dravidian languages (section)

====Verbal morphology====
The Dravidian verb is formed by adding tense, mood and personal suffixes to the root of the word. Thus the Tamil word ''varukiṟēṉ'' 'I come' is composed of the verb stem ''varu-'', the present suffix ''-kiṟ'' and the suffix of the 1st person singular ''-ēṉ''.

In Proto-Dravidian there are only two tenses, past and not past, while many daughter languages have developed a more complex tense system.

The negation is expressed synthetically by a special negative verb form (cf. Konda ''kitan'' 'he made', ''kiʔetan'' 'he did not').

The verb stem can be modified by stem-forming suffixes in many Dravidian languages. Thus Malto derives from the stem ''nud-'' 'to hide' the reflexive verb stem ''nudɣr-'' 'to hide'.

Infinite verb forms depend on either a following verb or a following noun. They serve to form more complex syntactic constructions.

Verbal compounds can be formed in Dravidian, for example the Tamil ''konṭuvara'' 'to bring' is composed of an infinite form of the verb ''koḷḷa'' 'to hold' and the verb ''vara'' 'to come'.