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616. The personal endings combined with the mode-signs of this mode (या in act., ई  in mid.) have been given in full above (566). The stem-form is the unaccented and unstrengthened root.

a. In the same manner, from √ and ; from √ and ; from √ and. The inflection is so regular that the example above given is enough, with the addition of, to show the normal accentuation in the middle: thus, sing. ; du. ; pl..

b. The RV. has once in 2d pl. act. (in ).

617. The imperative adds, in second and third persons, its own endings (with अताम् in 3d pl. mid.) directly to the root-stem. The stem is accented and strengthened in 3d sing. act.; elsewhere, the accent is on the ending and the root remains unchanged. The first persons, so called, of the later language are from the old subjunctive, and have its strengthened stem and accent; they are repeated here from where they were given above (614 a). In the 2d sing. act., the ending is regularly (as in the two following classes) धि if the root end with a consonant, and हि  if it end with a vowel. As examples we take the roots already used for the purpose.