э-

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Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *er-. Compare to Turkish imek.

Verb

э- (e-) (auxiliary, in the forms of the definite past only)

  1. Used after a past participle, forming the pluperfect tense of a verb.
  2. Used after a future participle, forming the future in the past tense of a verb.
  3. to be (auxiliary)

Conjugation

Declension Singular Plural
First эдим (edim) эдибис (edibis), эдис (edis)
Second эдиҥ (ediŋ) эдигер (ediger)
Third эди (edi) эдилер (ediler)

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “э-”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ, Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN