Dalecarlian verb moods

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The verb can be in five moods:

• Indicative
  
• Imperative
  
• Conjunctive
  
• Infinitive
  
• Participle

Indicative
This is the most common mood, and the verb has all of its conjugations in present and past in this mood:

Present: Kullañ trár (='The girl longs'),
Past: Pojken tráddi (='The boy longed')

Imperative
The imperative is used, when we ask someone to do something. It can be in singular, 1^st person plural and 2^nd person plural:

Singular: Trá!, Fari!, Bitt! (='Long!', 'Go!', 'Bind!'),
1^st pers. pl.: Tráum!, Farum!, Bindum! (='Let us long!', 'Let us go!', 'Let us bind!'),
2^nd pers. pl.: Tráið!, Farið!, Bindið! (='Long!', 'Go!', 'Bind!')

Conjunctive
This mood is used, when something is treated as a wish:

Ig hefði verið rík (='I should have been rich'),
Um heð vǽri vildera (='If it were better')

Infinitive
We name verbs by putting them in the infinitive, and to do so, we put til [tI] in front of them:

til spilå (='to play'),
til gayma [gE:`mA] (='to hide'),
til sitja [sItt`SA] (='to sit')

Participle
The participle can be in both present and past:

Present participle
The present participle always ends with -endi[s] and tells about something, that's going on right now:

 grasiñu sér ig ein skjáfendi kripp (='On the grass, I see a trembling child'),
Heð var ein lifendis bjønn í sjúm (='There was a living bear in the lake')

Past participle
The past participle tells about something, which has happened or what could have happened:

Hoñ hafr dayið (='She has died'),
Þeir hafði fellið (='They had fallen'),
Han ir ferin (='He is gone'),
Þu jat eit bækæð brouð (='You eat a baked bread')

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