In synthetically conjugated light-verb constructions such as 'I live' or 'I love', care must be taken not to confuse the light verb () with tense auxiliaries; and are simple present forms, for example. The modal verbs and are also of this kind. In the periphrastic tenses of compound verbs with , some contractions occur, e.g. in the future of 'live', where we would expect for 'I will live', is more common, with "-ko" attached directly onto the lexical component as if this were a verb.