Punctual mu- mi-, ni-, ning-, mu- ming- Durative mag-, maga- nag-, naga-, ga- mag-, maga- Potential maka-, ka- naka-, ka- maka-, ka-
Punctual -un gi- -a Durative paga-un* gina-* paga-a* Potential ma- na- ma-
Punctual -an gi-an -i Durative paga-an* gina-an* paga-i* Potential ma-an, ka-an na-an ma-i, ka-i
Punctual i- gi- i- Durative iga-* gina-* iga-* Potential ma-, ika- na-, gika- ma-, ika-
The inflectional affixes are added not only to roots (forms containing no other affixes) but also to derived bases (forms containing further affixes). The productive affixes which are added to roots to form bases which in turn may have inflectional affixes added to them are -ay, -an, pa-, paN-, [24] ka-, hi-, ha-, hiN-, pakig-, paki-, panggi-, pani-, paniN-1. These affixes are given entries in the dictionary and exemplified there.
When the active inflectional affixes are added to verb bases which contain some of these derivative prefixes, they undergo morphophonemic alternations as shown in the following chart:
together with ni- (mi-, ning-) mu- becomes prefix becomes
paN- naN- maN- pakig- nakig- makig- paniN- naniN- maniN- pani- nani- mani- panggi- nanggi- manggi-
These affixes are given entries and defined there.
7.0 Classification of roots according to their system of affixation
With the rich system of derivational and inflectional affixations to which Cebuano roots are subject, there are literally hundreds of different affixed forms for any given root. Since it is manifestly impossible to list exhaustively all affixations for any given root, we follow the principle here that PRODUCTIVE FORMATIONS are generally not listed unless there is s.t. especial about their meanings or morphophonemics. By PRODUCTIVE FORMATIONS we mean affixes which are added to all, or almost all, members of a certain group of roots. For example, the affix ka-an2 is added to any root which refers to a plant to form a collective noun referring to a place where a group of that type of plant is found. The formation, ka-[plant]-an, is not listed except in cases where there is s.t. special about the affixation, as for example kalubinhan ‘coconut grove’ (from lubi) which undergoes special morphophonemics or kabaknitan ‘thicket’ (from baknit ‘k.o. vine’), where the meaning of the affixed form is not predictable from the meaning of the base and the affixes. The following productive affixes are listed only occasionally. For their meanings and a description of the type of roots to which they are added, see the entries: pa-1,2; paN-1a,c, panggi-, hi-/ha-; hiN-1; -ay/-anay; paka-2, doubling or Culu-; -in-1, -in2, ka-an2, -in-an1, -in-an2, ma-2.