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# Both endings could be reconstructed for 1st person singular in present tense. The former ending is from Eastern dialects, the latter - from Western ones. | # Both endings could be reconstructed for 1st person singular in present tense. The former ending is from Eastern dialects, the latter - from Western ones. | ||
# According to the modern language the -ais ending is reconstructible for 2nd person singular in past tense, but the form -ēi was attested. However it is not precisely known whether the -ēi ending was real or it could be a misspelling. | # According to the modern language the ''-ais'' ending is reconstructible for 2nd person singular in past tense, but the form ''-ēi'' was attested. However it is not precisely known whether the -ēi ending was real or it could be a misspelling. | ||
An interesting feature Old Pomorian verbs possessed was a presence of objective clitics. These clitics were attached to the end of prefixless transitive verbs or to the beginning of transitive verbs with prefixes to show a direct object. Those clitics are seldom used in North-Western dialects of the modern language, but are considered archaic. Pronouns in accusative case are used instead nowadays. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" | |||
! person | |||
! Singular || Dual || Plural | |||
|- | |||
! 1st | |||
| -mej-/-mi- || -vās-/-vā- || -mes-/-me- | |||
|- | |||
! 2nd | |||
| -tej-/-ti- || -tās-/-tā- || tes-/-te- | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
Clitics could be attached in all tenses and moods and didn't change their form like real verb personal endings. However they had long form (if the verb began in a vowel) and short (if the verb began in a consonant). There was no clitic for a third person, a corresponding pronoun was always used in that case. There was also a similar '''reflexive clitic''' (-sej-/-si-) which made a verb intransitive. For example: ''nātigēdjau'' means "I asked you", ''nāsigēdjesi'' is "you ask yourself". | |||
==Development== | ==Development== | ||