Ehyeh is the first-person singular imperfect form of " hayah ", " to be " . " Ehyeh " is usually translated " I will be ", since the imperfect tense in Hebrew denotes actions that are not yet completed ( e . g.
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Among the seven Surahs, the first three, namely Al-Hadid, Al-Hashr and As-Saff commence with the past perfect tense'sabbaha "'" purity has been proclaimed " " whilst the last two, namely Al-Jumu'ah and At-Taghabun commence with the imperfect tense yusabbihu [ purity is proclaimed ].
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Martin Amis caught it perfectly when he said that Leonard had " discovered a way of slowing down and suspending the English sentence " by writing not in the imperfect tense or the present tense, but " in a kind of marijuana tense ."
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Tense suffixes can change form depending on person and can alter person marking in some cases : for instance, in the past imperfect tense, both the third person singular and plural subject markers ( typically "-n ", "-nchiq ", or "-nku " depending on object ) become "-q ", meaning that a verb in the past imperfect with a third person subject would end in "-yka-q ".
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The frequency of consonants in Ubykh is quite variable; the phoneme alone accounts for over 12 % of all consonants encountered in connected text, due to the presence of the phoneme in the ergative and oblique singular and plural case suffixes, the third person singular and plural ergative verbal agreement prefix, the adverbial derivative suffix, the present and imperfect tense suffixes, and in suffixes denoting several non-finite verb forms.
