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 The citation form is the perfective or telic past form. For the verb ''dagoo'' 'he wrote', these forms are ''dagoo'', ''dadagoo/ledagoo'', ''sadagoo'' and ''thodagoo''.
-The progressive ''oo-'' also existed in Early Tseer and was added to the imperfective stem, but it fell out of use. This explains the lack of feminine wa- in the imperfective form.
+The progressive ''oo-'' also existed in Early Tseer and was added to the imperfective stem, but it was deleted. This explains the lack of feminine ''wa-'' in the imperfective form.
 The imperative is marked with a particle ''ma'': ''ma thodagoo toyab'' = 'write a book (to a man)'; ''eer ma wathodagoo toyab'' = let her write a book (perf)'.