Aspect is as basic to the Neo-Mandaic verbal system as tense; the inflected forms derived from the participle are imperfective, and as such indicate habitual actions, progressive or inchoative actions, and actions in the future from a past or present perspective. The perfective forms are not only preterite but also resultative-stative, which is most apparent from the verbs relating to a change of state, e.g. "mextat eštɔ" ‘she is dead now,’ using the perfective of "meṯ" ~ "moṯ" ("mɔyeṯ") ‘to die.’