The reason of this is that in Cornish, as in the other Celtic languages, the infinitive is counted as a verbal noun, signifying the act of doing.
Occasionally idn or un was used, as in Breton, with a verbal noun (or infinitive), to form what in English would be a present participle.
The inflected verb is reducible to five tenses, with an imperative, two participles, and a verbal noun or infinitive.
This is made by placing the preposition yn, en, in, and the indefinite article idn, un, before the infinitive or verbal noun.
The imperfect tense is merely the present with the additional verbal noun cuchi added, as-- Nacal in cah cuchi, I was ascending.
The word tzolan is a verbal noun, the past participle of the passive voice of tzol, which means to put in order, to arrange, and is in the genitive of the thing possessed, as indicated by the pronoun u.
I also tried to show that the infinitive in the Dravidian languages is a verbal noun with or without a case suffix.
How easy would it have been to explain that scribere was originally a locative of a verbal noun, and that there was nothing strange or irrational in saying, “I wonder at thee in the act of not writing to me.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verbal noun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
