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In Brytho-Hellenic many important verbs are irregular and they have got peculiarities that must be learned and cannot be summed up in tables. | In Brytho-Hellenic many important verbs are irregular and they have got peculiarities that must be learned and cannot be summed up in tables. | ||
Most verbs though are regular and, of course, all the new coinages are regular. | Most verbs though are regular and, of course, all the new coinages are regular. | ||
As many verbs have got a regular present, but an irregular imperfect or perfect, it is better to talk of '''regular present''' rather than '''present of regular verbs'''. | |||
Let's see the present tense of six | The regular present can follow two different patterns, known as '''e-pattern''' and '''u-pattern''': these names come from the vowel of the ending of the 1st person plural. The persons of the singular and the 3rd person plural have got always the same endings, only the first two persons of the plural can change and by knowing which pattern the verb belongs to, one can predict the ending of the 1st and the 2nd persons plural. | ||
Let's see the present tense of these six verbs: '''feryn''', "to bring", '''egyn''', "to have", '''lanyn''', "to take", '''syn''', "to live", '''lalyn''', "to speak", and '''filyn''', "to love". | |||
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