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ROUMANIAN GRAMMAR.

IRREGULAR VERBS.

The study of the verbs in Roumanian is the easier for the fact that there is not a long list of what are called anomalous verbs, as in German or in French. Besides the verbs a ave, a fi, the conjugation of which we have already seen, the following verbs must be noticed:

(1) A ṣti, ‘to know,’ which though belonging to the third class (according to its final i) is inflected as one of the second class:
eŭ ṣtiŭ,
‘I know,’
eŭ ṣtiuĭ,
‘I knew,’
eŭ ṣtiussem.
‘I had known.’
(2) A voi, ‘to will,’ which though regularly inflected may take the following alternative form in all its tenses:

Indicative Present.

eŭ voesc, ‘I will.’ eŭ vreŭ,
tu voeṣtĭ, tu vreĭ,
el voeṣte, el vre, or vrea,
noĭ voim, noĭ vrem,
voĭ voiṭĭ, voĭ vreṭĭ,
eĭ voescŭ, eĭ vreŭ, or vréŭ.

Imperfect.

eŭ voiam, ‘I was willing.’ eŭ vrém,

Simple Perfect.

eŭ voiĭ, ‘I was wiling.’ eŭ vrusseĭ.

Simple Pluperfect.

eŭ voissem, ‘I had been willing.’ eŭ vrussem.