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 * 1. The present tense is inflected by adding the personal endings to the present stem, and its first person uses -ō and not -m. The form amō is for amā-ō, the two vowels ā-ō contracting to ō. In moneō there is no contraction. Nearly all regular verbs ending in -eō belong to the second conjugation.
 * 2. Note that the long final vowel of the stem is shortened before another vowel (monē-ō = mo'nĕō), and before final -t (amăt, monĕt) and -nt (amănt, monĕnt). Compare § 12.2.

129. Like amō and moneō inflect the present active indicative of the following verbs:

130. The Translation of the Present. In English there are three ways of expressing present action. We may say, for example, I live, I am living, or I do live. In Latin the one expression habitō covers all three of these expressions.