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How do you form the progressive in Tamil?
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Verb(AVP)-(க்)கொண்டிரு-tense-PNG
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What does it mean when the emphatic suffix ஏ is added (plus the glide ய்) between கொண்டு and இரு
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Something is carried out for unusually long time, e.g. My younger sister has been eating for the past half an hour since ten o'clock.
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How is the progressive கொண்டிரு negated?
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கொண்டிரு is negated regularly from the infinitive: கொண்டிருக்கவில்லை
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How are modals added to the progressive?
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By simply adding them to the infinitive of கொண்டிரு, கொண்டிருக்க-modal.
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What does it mean when the progressive aspectual form is used with one of the verbs, but without the suffix இரு.
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Two actions are carried out simultaneously.
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