Verbs can be marked for transitivity and voice (transitive-passive or intransitive-antipassive), but not person, tense, aspect or mood. Voice marking is for the transitive-passive, and made by suffixing "-e" to the verb stem when the object follows the verb, and "-em" when the object is elsewhere in the clause. Note that the suffix "-em" is of fairly recent development, and is in origin an abbreviation of the verb phrase form "VERB-e em", where the cross referencing pronoun em and the suffix have coalesced (via "-i em" → "-yem" → "-em"). All these versions exist in everyday speech. The verb mentioned below is "tek" 'to take': intransitive-antipassive "tek", transitive-passive "teke", "teki em", "tekyem", "tekem":