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Rh 4. The same present indicative, with the infinitive present of the verb ‘to be,’ for the second future: 5. As the subjunctive is formed by placing before the verb the particle să and the auxiliaries aṣĭ, aĭ, ar, am, aṭĭ, ar, before the conditional, the perfects of those moods will be formed if we put after să or aṣĭ the infinitive of ‘to be:’

And only in the passive form is the verb ‘to be’ used exclusively as auxiliary.

Having now considered the auxiliary verbs, and their use in the formation of the compound tenses of other verbs, we can speak of the verbs themselves. These have five different terminations for the infinitive present, which can be reduced to three.