Snat Sajem Tan/Sajem Tan Culture, Auxiliaries, Tense, and the Vocative Case

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Future tense
The future tense is very simple to express in Sajem Tan: you simply put the suffix -jot after the subject noun, after all other derivational suffixes and before any morphological suffixes. Yes, future tense is marked on the noun, not the verb. This is because that suffix means "the future state of [the root word]", and so it is a derivational suffix. Here are some examples:




 * Temöt||kygykfê||dêjot.
 * cake||eat-PERF||I-FUTURE
 * colspan=3|"I will eat cake."
 * }
 * colspan=3|"I will eat cake."
 * }

Some have proposed that archaic periods of Sajem Tan (i.e. Sajem Sülem) had a corresponding -got for the past state of a noun (not to be used for past tense except as a poeticism or when trying to achieve rhyme), but this is controversial for some reason.