Lombard/Continuous construction

Lombard language course
Morphology of Lombard language

Articles
Nouns
Adjectives • Adjective degrees
Pronouns • Subject personal pronouns •• Object and term personal pronouns •• Pronominal and adverbial particles - Demonstrative pronouns •• Possessive pronouns •• Indefinite pronouns
Verbs • Moods and tenses •• Infinitive •• Gerund and gerundial complements •• Participle - Present Indicative •• Past Indicative (Perfect Indicative) •• Imperfect Indicative •• Past Perfect Indicative •• Simple Future Indicative •• Compound Future Indicative •• Present Subjunctive •• Past Subjunctive (Perfect Subjunctive) •• Imperfect Subjunctive •• Past Perfect Subjunctive •• Present Conditional •• Past Conditional •• Present Imperative •• Future Imperative •• Continuous construction ••• Irregular verbs
••• Auxiliary verbs
••• Modal verbs
••• Phrasal verbs
Prepositions and prepositional locutions
Adverbs and adverbial locutions
Pronominal and adverbial particles
Negation
Other constructions replacing the adverbs "easily" and "hardly"
Conjunctions and conjunctive locutions

The reference orthography for this page of Lombard course is New Lombard orthography

The progressive form or continuous construction is used to indicate an action that takes place over a continuous time which can be either present, past or future.
It is constructed as follows:

vesser adree a * + Infinitive ^a

* the verb "vesser 'dree a" ("adree" is often abbreviated as 'dree) is conjugated to the mood and tense typical of the action or event.

^a Infinitive of the verb that indicate the action.

Notes on variants

In Novarese dialect the variant drera is used.

Examples