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The basis of '''future I''' is formed morphologically by affixing ''-s-'' (or ''-r-'' in some cases) to the naked stem and then the appropriate person endings. | The basis of '''future I''' is formed morphologically by affixing ''-s-'' (or ''-r-'' in some cases) to the naked stem and then the appropriate person endings. | ||
This future form is able to | This future form is able to occupy the first position of a sentence and thus word-order-wise it behaves just the same as a fully inflected present tense verb. | ||
The relevant person suffixes for this future are | |||
{| class="wikitable | |||
!person||suffix | |||
|- | |||
|I||-ann | |||
|- | |||
|thou||-is OR -ir | |||
|- | |||
|he||-idh | |||
|- | |||
|we||-an, -am | |||
|- | |||
|you||-idh | |||
|- | |||
|they||-annad | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
{| class="bluetable" | {| class="bluetable" | ||
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=====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
<ref name="bhui">All of these can be replaced with a single ''bhúi'' if the pronoun follows, which is more often the standard than the exception.</ref> | <ref name="bhui">All of these can be replaced with a single ''bhúi'' if the pronoun follows, which is more often the standard than the exception.</ref> | ||