Sunday, February 05, 2012
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Unit 1: Introductions
Lesson 3: E-Verbs 1
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Click on the bold word to hear its pronunciation.

а - conjunction - and, uh
во - preposition - in, at, to
вие - pronoun - you (plural and formal)
јас - pronoun - I
каде - interrogative - where
ние - pronoun - we
живее - verb - live, reside
таа - pronoun - she
ти - pronoun - you (informal)
тие - pronoun - they
тоа - pronoun - it
тој - pronoun - he


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There are three types of verbs based on their last vowel in the dictionary form: a-verbs, e-verbs, and и-verbs, i.e. those ending in a, e, and и, respectively, in the form found in the dictionary. For verbs that end in -e in the dictionary, in order to form the present tense, the final -e is replaced in the first person singular with an -a- and removed completely in the third person plural. Then the endings you are already familiar with are added:

јас -(replace final e with a)м
ти -ш
тој -
ние -ме
вие -те
тие -(remove final e)ат

where the - represents the dictionary form.

Note: in literary Macedonian, the sequence -иа- does not exist; there will always be a -j- separating -и- and -a-, creating -ија-. This becomes relevant with e-verbs in the present first person singular and third person plural. To see this in action, view the E-verbs part 2 tutorial.


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