Various simplifications have occurred in the range of variation in verbal paradigms.
Following are tables exemplifying verbal paradigms in Unami in the independent order, indicative mood and present tense.
Nominal inflectional paradigms are also called declensions, and verbal inflectional paradigms are also called conjugations.
Depending on the number of verbal stems and their position in the verbal paradigm, every verb in Kulung belongs to a certain conjugation type.
Historically, English used to have a similar verbal paradigm.
Kluge's law had a noticeable impact on Proto-Germanic morphology, as it gave rise to both nominal and verbal paradigms with an alternation of geminated and non-geminated consonants.
However, the situation is somewhat more complicated due to the large number of verb stem classes and the numerous forms in verbal paradigms.
Continuous forms (such as estoy hablando) are usually not considered part of the verbal paradigm, though they often appear in books addressed to English-speakers who are learning Spanish.
Most affixes are suffixes and with few exceptions occur only on verbs, whereas the proclitics occur both in nominal and verbal paradigms.
The stems remain the same throughout all verbal paradigms, and it is possible to predict the surface form of each paradigm member with these stems and the simple tense suffixes.