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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 stand alone in the first position of a sentence and thus behaves word-order-wise just the same as a fully inflected present tense verb.   
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
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|I||-ann
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|thou||-is OR -ir
|-
|he||-idh
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|we||-an, -am
|-
|you||-idh
|-
|they||-annad
|-
|}


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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>

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