This periphrastic construction is not permitted in Galician, so Galician uses the synthetic pluperfect exclusively. The ancient aorist, imperfect, and (periphrastic) pluperfect have been lost. Infinitive forms are made together with auxiliary verbs and periphrastic forms. The first periphrastic conjugation uses the future participle. The second periphrastic conjugation uses the gerundive. Other aspectual, temporal and modal information can be marked on nonfinite verbs using periphrastic constructions. There is also a periphrastic imperfective future construction. These functions are instead fulfilled by periphrastic constructions involving a verb and various prepositional phrases. The following irregular verbs are used as auxiliary verbs in various periphrastic constructions. A range of further aspectual nuances may be conveyed by a variety of periphrastic constructions. Modal notions are expressed by further periphrastic constructions. It had analytic features like definite and indefinite articles and periphrastic verb conjugation. Although several verbal categories are expressed morphologically, periphrastic tense formations predominate. A given inflected one-word catena corresponds to a periphrastic multiple-word catena. The distinction between inflected and periphrastic forms is usually illustrated across distinct languages.