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The Aorist (AOR) Aspect

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The AOR aspect divorces the meaning of the lexeme from any particular developmental state, and presents its meaning in a generic or habitual sense.

Concrete (AN/IN) lexemes are best translated into English as generic plurals:

In this last example, both the LM and the verbal are in the AOR aspect. In general, AOR verbals translate as habituals. The senses of "used to do" and "will do in future" are captured by AOR aspects with different tenses: