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Rh has just been made with regard to the use of before the Imperfect Tense applies also to the Past Tense.

In the Autonomous form does not aspirate, but prefixes  to vowels.

With the exception of the aspiration of the initial consonant, the third person singular of this tense is exactly the same as the second person singular of the Imperative (i.e., the stem of the verb).

The particle formerly used before the Past Tense was. It is now no longer used by itself, but it occurs in combination with other particles.

The most important of these compounds are:—