 Nivaclé is, thus, one of the few languages of the world which have "nominal tense" with no verbal tense marking.The "verb" "alignment" is "active-stative" – there are two series of pronominal affixes on verbs, one that indicates subjects of active verbs which report events or happenings, whether they are transitive or intransitive, and another which signals both the object of transitive verbs and also the subject of stative intransitive verbs, verbs which refer to states and not to events or happenings, as the active verbs do.Indicative, negative, and irrealis verbs have distinct morphological markings of their own for personal pronoun subject agreement.