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 antepenult, in accordance with the apparently invariable for all pure Malagasy words, that the accent must never be further from the end of a word than the antepenult. 



The Malagasy Verb has three voices, the active, the passive, and the relative; each voice has only two moods, the indicative and the imperative; and each mood has the three simple tenses, present, past and future. No changes are made for gender, number, or person.

Of these two moods, the indicative serves for every mood, except these three, viz. the imperative, the subjunctive, and the optative, for which three the imperative itself serves.