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  1. Verb Conjugation

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    Verb conjugation is the morphological process by which a verb is inflected to express grammatical categories such as person, number, tense, aspect, and mood. It serves as a central mechanism in many synthetic languages for linking the action or state described by the verb root to the participants and temporal setting of the utterance. While often associated with Indo-European linguistic families, systems of highly regularized verb inflection are also documented across various [language isola…