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Chapter 13

Miscellaneous Verbs and Verb Irregularities


13.1        Three miscellaneous verbs

    The verbs бегчы, to run, даць, to give, and есці, to eat, conjugate as follows.

бягу
бяжым

дам
дадзім

ем
ядзім
бяжыш
бяжыце

дасі
дасце

еш
ясце
бяжыць
бягуць

дасць
дадуць

есць
ядуць


13.2        Shifting stress

    For many verbs, the accent is on the ending for the first person singular, but is the root for all other persons.  This happens most often when the final syllable of the infinitive is accented.

Infin.

1st Pers. Sing.
2nd Pers. Sing.
вазіць
to transport
важу
возіш
гаварыць
to speak
гавару
гаворыш
прыняць
to receive
прыму
прымеш
хацець
to want
хачу
хочаш


13.3        Verb ending variation

    The verbs conjugated above have the most current and accepted endings, but variations do exist.  One common variation that effects verbs of the types discussed in Sections 11.1 and 11.3 is to replace the ending of the 1st person plural, -ём or -ом, with the endings -ем or -эм, respectively.  Another common variation, which effects all verbs with accented endings, replaces the final -е of the 2nd person plural with a -ё.  Although these variations do exist, they are non-standard and should be avoided by the non-native speaker.


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