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 endings — but combined in subjunctive and optative with the respective mode-signs; and in the imperfect the augment is prefixed to the root.

a. The accented endings (552) regularly take the accent — except in the imperfect, where it falls on the augment — and before them the root remains unchanged; before the unaccented endings, the root takes the -strengthening.

b. It is only in the first three classes that the endings come immediately in contact with a final consonant of the root, and that the roles for consonant combination have to be noted and applied. In these classes, then, additional paradigms will be given, to illustrate the modes of combination.

612. The endings are the primary (with अते in 3d pl. mid.), added to the bare root. The root takes the accent, and has, if capable of it, in the three persons sing. act.

Examples of inflection: a. active, root इ go: strong form of root-stem, ए ; weak form, इ ; middle, root  sit, stem  (irregularly accented throughout: 628).

b. root. hate: strong stem-form, ; weak,. For rules of combination for the final, see 226.

c. root milk: strong stem-form, ; weak,. For rules of combination for the final, and for the conversion of the initial to , see 222 a, 155, 160.