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The past augment is '''e''' if the root vowel (or first vowel of the root) is a front vowel (e.g. ''berámi'' "I carry", ''eberam'' "I carried"), '''a''' otherwise.
The past augment is '''e''' if the root vowel (or first vowel of the root) is a front vowel (e.g. ''berámi'' "I carry", ''eberam'' "I carried"), '''a''' otherwise.
====Nasal infix verbs====
====Nasal infix verbs====
The first conjugation in Lifashian is the most common, the one with the most regularized verbal formations, and (by means of the suffix ''-iy-'') the main productive one. Nearly all verbs ending in ''-ámi'' in the first person singular of the present (the citation form) belong to it.
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+ '''''pinesmi'' (√pisy-) "I mark"'''
|+ '''''pinesmi'' (√pisy-) "I mark"'''
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Note that the second person singular present ends in '''-si'''; in the example, it is ''-syi'' due to assimilation to the previous consonant.
Note that the second person singular present ends in '''-si'''; in the example, it is ''-syi'' due to assimilation to the previous consonant.
====Copula====
====Copula====
The first conjugation in Lifashian is the most common, the one with the most regularized verbal formations, and (by means of the suffix ''-iy-'') the main productive one. Nearly all verbs ending in ''-ámi'' in the first person singular of the present (the citation form) belong to it.
The first conjugation in Lifashian is the most common, the one with the most regularized verbal formations, and (by means of the suffix ''-iy-'') the main productive one. Nearly all verbs ending in ''-ámi'' in the first person singular of the present (the citation form) belong to it.