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There are a variety of different strategies to form the perfective. Many of them involve the ''suffix'', which takes the form of ''-v-'' between vowels and ''-u-'' after consonants. All of them take the perfective endings. | There are a variety of different strategies to form the perfective. Many of them involve the ''suffix'', which takes the form of ''-v-'' between vowels and ''-u-'' after consonants. All of them take the perfective endings. | ||
*Attachment of the suffix directly to the stem | :*Attachment of the suffix directly to the stem. | ||
:::'''''mendiç''''' ("they are healing me") → '''''menduī''''' ("they healed me") | |||
:::'''''saepiç''''' ("they are cutting me") → '''''saepuī''''' ("they cut me") | |||
:*Attachment of the suffix after base thematic vowel. | |||
:::'''''helior''''' ("I am bright") → '''''helīvō''''' ("I was bright") | |||
:::'''''augeç''''' ("they are looking at me") → '''''augēvī''''' ("they looked at me") | |||
:*No suffix; perfective endings attached directly to the stem, with root vowel lengthening. | |||
:::'''''iuvaç''''' ("they are writing me") → '''''iūvī''''' ("they wrote me") | |||
:::'''''feriç''''' ("they are carrying me") → '''''fērī''''' ("they carried me") | |||
===Voice=== | ===Voice=== | ||