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The Bare Progressive and the Conjunctive Progressive
Like the preterite, the aorist is limited in its use; instead, descriptions of present-tense events typically employ a progressive construction.
A small number of verbs form ‘bare progressives’ – that is, the simple, seemingly aorist form of the verb can in fact be employed as a progressive. This applies particular to verbs of position, such as stąnn, “to be standing” and ligga, “to be lying”, but also to some verbs of state, such as sweva, “to sleep”, and some verbs of continuous motion, such as rąsa, “to flow”.
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