Durative or continuous action similar to the `progressive' construction VERB+ING in English, is expressed in Tamil by combining Ø´Ô koo in its AVP form ´Õ¥Üç kittu with the `stative' aspectual verb Éç iru, i.e. ´Õ¥Üç kittiru, and affixing this to the AVP of a main verb: Âÿâ + ´Õ¥Üç + ÿØ»¨ vandu+ kitt-irundeen `I was com-ing.' The expression of durative CONTINUOUS action (a semantically separate kind of aspectual contrast) will be dealt with in more detail in a later section, but a few examples are given here.
