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longer form with i at the end is used / becomes c from tj, as hlede, hledící, seeing; jsoucí, being.

5. The present participle pasjf, which in so many of the s- Slavonic languages has disappeared, is represented in Čech . only by fragments, e.g. vědom, known; znám, celebrated.

A. Conjugation with the Present Suffix, first class, stems without connecting vowel. (1) Those in d and t. ple'sli, to weave. a. Inf. stem, plel. Inf. ple's-ti. Past part. act. I. plet. Past part. act. II. plet-l. Past part. pass, plet-e-n. 18. Pres. stem, plel-e.


Singular. Plural.

Pres. r. plet-u- plet-e-me


2. plet-e-s plet-e-te


3. plet-e plet-ou.

Imp. 1. - plei-me


2. plet plet-te


3. pie/. plei-te.

Pres. part, active, plet-a.

vlasti (to rule), pasti (to fall), and sjesti (to sit), although existing in O. C. are lost in the modern language, and their place supplied by verbs in the second conjugation, e.g. vládnu, padnu, sednu, jdu, to go, borrows its past from the root íed, which is identical with chod in chodili, to go. The d has been ejected. (Cf. Polish szedl.) Sometimes we find the form išel with a parasitic i, as is the case in so many of the Slavonic languages. Past part. act. sed: pfeied' pře% hory, having gone over the mountains.

(2) Stems which end in s. n/sti, to bring.

a. Inf. stem, nes. Inf. ne's-li. Past part. act. I. nes. Past part. act. II. ties-l. Past part. pass, nes-e-n.