This example shows a genitive absolute with an aorist participle. Bulgarian has separate inflections for aorist (past imperfective) and general perfective. The ancient aorist, imperfect, and (periphrastic) pluperfect have been lost. Secondary endings are used with the imperfect, conditional, aorist, and optative. The past is expressed by aorist, imperfect, perfect and pluperfect. There are two main tenses/aspects in Egyptian&colon; past and temporally-unmarked imperfective and aorist forms. In the aorist series, intransitive verbs behave differently. The positive optative is formed from a prefix "baa-" to the past continuous/aorist. A few archaisms still used (aorist in the perfective aspect 'was'). These verbs used the former aorist as a present tense form. Athematic verbs, and perfect actives and aorist passives, add the suffix instead, e.g., . The Sanskrit language includes five tenses&colon; present, future, past imperfect, past aorist and past perfect. The aorist and the imperfect are the standard tenses for telling a story. The aorist or imperfect indicative with may express past unreality or counterfactuality. The aorist and indicative past tense merged, creating the Slavic aorist.