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The way in which a verb will conjugate can be determined from how it forms the following four constructions: the ''active idicative imperfective first person singular'', the ''active perfective participle'', the ''active optative imperfective first person singular'', and the ''active indicative perfective first person singular''. These four forms are refered to as a verb's ''reference forms''. They are often shortend to ''first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|1p.sg}}), ''perfective participle'' ({{Smallcaps|pfv.ptcp}}), ''optative first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|opt.1p.sg}}), and ''perfective first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|pfv.1p.sg}}) respectively. | The way in which a verb will conjugate can be determined from how it forms the following four constructions: the ''active idicative imperfective first person singular'', the ''active perfective participle'', the ''active optative imperfective first person singular'', and the ''active indicative perfective first person singular''. These four forms are refered to as a verb's ''reference forms''. They are often shortend to ''first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|1p.sg}}), ''perfective participle'' ({{Smallcaps|pfv.ptcp}}), ''optative first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|opt.1p.sg}}), and ''perfective first person singular'' ({{Smallcaps|pfv.1p.sg}}) respectively. | ||
The first of these reference forms determines a verb's ''base thematic class'', or what theme vowel is used in its indicative imperfective forms. | |||
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