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56 ::(3) A lua, ‘to take,’ has a regular conjugation, but in the singular, and the third person plural of the indicative present, subjunctive present, and imperative, it changes the root lu to i.


 * (4) Many verbs derived from those Latin verbs which reduplicate their root for the perfect do the same in Roumanian:

In the same way, a la, ‘to wash (the head),’ has its perfect:


 * (5) The verbs, a zice, ‘to say;’ a face, ‘to do,’ have the second person singular of the imperative: zi, fă.