CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LENITE
PRESENT
Present
I lenite
you lenite
he/she/it lenites
we lenite
you lenite
they lenite
Present continuous
I am leniting
you are leniting
he/she/it is leniting
we are leniting
you are leniting
they are leniting
Present perfect
I have lenited
you have lenited
he/she/it has lenited
we have lenited
you have lenited
they have lenited
Present perfect continuous
I have been leniting
you have been leniting
he/she/it has been leniting
we have been leniting
you have been leniting
they have been leniting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I lenited
you lenited
he/she/it lenited
we lenited
you lenited
they lenited
Past continuous
I was leniting
you were leniting
he/she/it was leniting
we were leniting
you were leniting
they were leniting
Past perfect
I had lenited
you had lenited
he/she/it had lenited
we had lenited
you had lenited
they had lenited
Past perfect continuous
I had been leniting
you had been leniting
he/she/it had been leniting
we had been leniting
you had been leniting
they had been leniting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will lenite
you will lenite
he/she/it will lenite
we will lenite
you will lenite
they will lenite
Future continuous
I will be leniting
you will be leniting
he/she/it will be leniting
we will be leniting
you will be leniting
they will be leniting
Future perfect
I will have lenited
you will have lenited
he/she/it will have lenited
we will have lenited
you will have lenited
they will have lenited
Future perfect continuous
I will have been leniting
you will have been leniting
he/she/it will have been leniting
we will have been leniting
you will have been leniting
they will have been leniting
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would lenite
you would lenite
he/she/it would lenite
we would lenite
you would lenite
they would lenite
Conditional continuous
I would be leniting
you would be leniting
he/she/it would be leniting
we would be leniting
you would be leniting
they would be leniting
Conditional perfect
I would have lenite
you would have lenite
he/she/it would have lenite
we would have lenite
you would have lenite
they would have lenite
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been leniting
you would have been leniting
he/she/it would have been leniting
we would have been leniting
you would have been leniting
they would have been leniting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you lenite
we let´s lenite
you lenite
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
leniting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LENITE»
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lenite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lenite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Modern Irish: Grammatical Structure and Dialectal Variation
(c) All simple (i.e. non-compounded) prepositions except go 'to', ag 'at', chun '
towards', i 'in', (e)idir 'between', le 'with' and seachas 'apart from' lenite. The
preposition as lenites sporadically in Dunquin, e.g. as sheomra 'out of a room'; ...
2
Markedness: Reduction and Preservation in Phonology
To block lenition of /k/ and /p/ both ident{dors,lab} and *{β,γ} must outrank lenite,
as shown in tableau (68). (68) Ifonsetforcesepenthesis,
theconstraintsidentifiedsofarwillfavourepenthetic [ɾ] over [p] or [k]. In tableau (69)
candidate (b) has an ...
3
The Gaelic-English Dictionary
The consonants b, c, f, g, m, p and s which lenite after a word causing lenition or
as a result of case. The letter s is exempt in some situations, notably in the words
seo this, sin that, siud that yonder (which, in most areas, are not lenited, and ...
genitive and masculine nouns in the genitive singular lenite the following
adjective, e.g.,bean mhaith'a good woman', an fhir mhaith 'of the good man'.
Certainformsofthe copulalenite their noun or adjective predicate, e.g.,ba mhaith
Horn 'I ...
Martin Ball, Nicole Muller, 2012
5
Q. Horatii Flacci opera. The works of Horace: the Odes on ...
Lenite. clamorem,. sodales,. Et. cubito. remanete. presso. Voltus. severi. me.
quoque. sumere. Partem. Falerni ? dicat. Opuntiae. 1. 0. friendship, as well as to
the profanation of the table, which was always regarded as sacred by the
ancients.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, George Bomford Wheeler, 1846
6
Pamphlets on the Catholic Church: The church and social ...
Suppose a Lenite tetrarch was set up in Washington; suppose our religion was
called a "barbaric superstition"; suppose Lenite soldiers walked through our
streets, collected our taxes, and now and then induced some American to work
for ...
7
A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-Comparative Notes on ...
Certain initial consonants of the reduplicated segment may change: (i) b , j and k
may lenite to the corresponding glides: balarr- 'white', balarr-walarr'yolk'; junku '
straight', junku-yunku 'in retaliation, in return'; kurraji-wurraji 'a few' (no ...
8
Language and its Ecology: Essays in Memory of Einar Haugen
... name all three times that she used the name in direct address within my freely
spoken corpus. The situation is quite different where E36 is concerned. He simply
does not lenite reliably in direct address, whether speaking freely or translating.
Stig Eliasson, Ernst H. Jahr, 1997
9
Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology
In Irish this is, and always has been, the case with /f/, which lenites to zero. (22)
afhion Is ian/ 'his wine' This alternation is consistent with both the principle of
lenition and the phonological structure of Irish. Given that stops lenite to fricatives,
...
10
Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali
Thus, since the first Iml in [mamike] is intervocalic and not initial in a tonally-
marked domain, it can lenite to [u]. However, in the second recording (right),
another speaker parses the two words [lina] and [mamike] into two separate APs.
Thus ...
Sameer ud Dowla Khan, 2008
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LENITE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
lenite is used in the context of the following news items.
Александр Градский - "Мразь телевизионная"
Lenite Mausi 1 year ago. Слишком актуально. Слабонервным не слушать. Или слушать и не понимать. Read more Show less. 11 12 ... «YouTube, Jan 11»
Schism fears for Gaeilgeoirí
In terms of expected pronunciation, the relaxed urban speakers missed almost every opportunity to lenite or eclipse (“séimhiú” and “urú”), ... «Irish Times, Jan 10»
Marin lawyer dies in Baja
Mr. Hurt is survived by a stepdaughter, Lenite Johnson, and a grandson, Chance Roger Chapin, both of Newport Beach, and a niece and ... «Marin Independent-Journal, Jul 06»
