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RV 48 (Rh) The complete set of Perfective personal endings is:

The verb /allə/ 'he exists, is present' denotes the present tense but takes the personal endings of the Perfect:

Note 5.2 Verb: Verb forms /alləc/ 'she exists', /yalləccım/ 'she does not exist' as equivalents to English 'have' and 'have not' with feminine object (see also Note 4.2).

Since the third person feminine of the verb /allə/ is /alləccı-/ before Verb Suffix Pronouns (Note 5.1), the equivalents of 'have' and 'have not' when what is possessed is feminine are as follows: (The construction is, literally, 'something (feminine) is to me, to you, etc'.).