v. (Ib)

a. érem be-zemán mákon be-gemgémoʰ be-di-ḥágher wa-ˀérem deʰ mákon ḥídɛr sémek beʸh deʰ waḳt ‘In times of old, the Makon was on the crown of Hagher. For the Makon had been built by that time’ (CSOL I 2:1)

b. wa-kaḷb deʰ di-ḳáḥḳaḥ érem géšɛḷ ŝɔb wa-teréfeʸh dáḫtar ‘And the dog that knocked at the door, it had broken its leg some time ago, and the doctor had healed it’ (CSOL II 30:15)

c. erémen tóˀo kέrhe nekóteb ˁan díˀḥan mέtaḷ di-saḳɔ́ṭri níšin íľľiḥan awráḳ ‘Long time ago, when we just started to write down our Soqotri speech, we left behind our papers’ (CSOL II 1:127)

d. éremk fɔ́ne aḷ-ˀešḥárog súwa ‘Formerly, I was unable to read welľ (CSOL II 1:127)

The verb is used only in the perfect.

érem + perfect (with the semantics of pluperfect) (a, b)

érem + perfect (with the semantics of remote past) (c)

érem + imperfect (with the semantics of past imperfective) (d)