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Periphrastically
Periphrastically Per`i*phras"tic*al*ly, adv. With circumlocution.

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- languages. For example, "more happy" is periphrastic in comparison to "happier," and English "I will eat" is periphrastic in comparison to Spanish "comeré."...
- Gerundive article. There are two periphrastic conjugations. One is active, and the other is p****ive. The first periphrastic conjugation uses the ****ure participle...
- which adjectives use inflected or periphrastic comparison, and some studies have shown a tendency for the periphrastic forms to become more common at the...
- instead of the Occitan -atz, -etz, -itz. One feature of Catalan is the periphrastic preterite tense for referring to the remote past, which is constructed...
- and perfect tenses and the optative mood. Many have been replaced by periphrastic (analytical) forms. Pronouns show distinctions in person (1st, 2nd, and...
- uses the periphrasis "of + noun" to replace the original genitive. This periphrastic form has variously been marked as used "particularly in isolated and...
- The ****ure indicative is turned into the periphrastic conjugation in -urus sim (the present periphrastic subjunctive is used as the ****ure subjunctive)...
- and analytic word order, as well as the eventual development of the periphrastic auxiliary verb do. These ideas have generally not received widespread...
- follows: Kinyarwanda employs the use of periphrastic causatives, in addition to morphological causatives. The periphrastic causatives use the verbs -teer- and...
- moved from synthetic verb systems to largely periphrastic systems. In addition, the pronouns of periphrastic forms are in parentheses when they appear....