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 ﻿rceme, rcete; and the past part. act. II. řekl-a-o are found"; for the rest of this verb we must go to conjug. II. řeknu.

(5) Stems which end in m and n. ža-ti (ží-íi), to reap, a. Inf. stem, in. Inf. Žiti. Past part. act. I. ža-v. Past part. act. II. ža-l. Past part. pass. žat.

Pres. stem, žn-e.

Singular. Plural.

Pres. 1. žn-u žn-e-me

2. žn-eš žn-e-te

3. žn-e ín-ou.

Imp. i. - zně-nie

2. žn-i zn-ě-te

3. žn-i zn-e-te.

Pres. part. act. žn-a.

Many of these verbs are more often used in the form belong- ing to the second conjugation. The appearance of the n and m in the present stem is to be explained by the latent nasal which existed in O. S. and is still preserved in Polish and in its cognate language or dialect, Kashubish. Thus we have po-liti, to begin, po-lnu; piti, to stretch, pnu; titi, to hack, tnu; žiti, to reap, žnu; douti, to blow out, dmu; jiti, to take hold of, jmu. (Cf. Russian htl, only used in compounds.) So also Čekh, vziti, to take, v-z-iti (cf. Russian b3htl), vezmu, I will take ; Imperative—vezmi,vezměme,vezměle; vzal -a -o jsem, I have taken. Cf. also jal se první spisovali dějiny země čěske, first betook him- self to write the history of the Bohemian land.

(6) Stems which end in r and 1. mříti, to die.

a. Inf. stem, mr. Inf. mř-í-ii. Past part. act. I. mř-e-v. Past part. act. II. mř-e-l. Past part. pass, (wanting).