Affirmative/Interrogative Type I/II (This conjugation is termed "I/II" to coincide with historic/
Western numbering, where there are still three distinct conjugations) Note that traditional Armenian grammars use Aorist for Preterite and Optative for Subjunctive. In Armenian,
gerunds /
gerundives /
converbs (verbal noun) are interchangeable with an English relative clause. For example, նամակ գրող մարդը
namak groġ mardə - The man who is writing a letter / The man writing a letter (there is only a present tense gerund in English) նամակ գրած մարդը
namak grac mardə - The man who has written a letter մարդու գրելիք նամակը
mardu grelik’ namakə - The letter that the man will write (roughly, "the man's will-be written letter") Additionally, the synchronical gerund or present participle II denotes a simultaneous action. In other words, a concurrency between two verbs: Ես վազելիս ընկա
yes vazelis ənka - I fell while running Note: the Conditional mood is sometimes labeled the Hypothetical mood; in the Necessative, պետք է
petk’ ē is used as a stronger form of պիտի
piti; and that resultive constructions are not moods. They convey a state as a result from a prior action. Compare: նստում եմ
nstum em, I am sitting down, and նստած եմ
nstac em, I am sitting. կառուցվում է
kaṙuc’voum ē, it is getting built, and կառուցված է
kaṙuc’vac ē, it is built.
Type III (This conjugation is termed "III" (instead of "II") to coincide with historic/
Western numbering, where there are still three distinct conjugations)
Negative Type I Note: the formation of the negative is the same for all conjugations. The examples below are based on the first conjugation. Note: the negative jussive forms may also be (in Eastern Armenian) ''ch'piti sirem, ch'piti sires, etc; ch'piti sirei, ch'piti sireir, etc''.