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 b. Root भृ bear (given with Vedic accentuation): strong stem-form, बिभर् ; weak, बिभृ  (or ).

c. The of  (like that of the class-signs  and : see below, 697 a) is said to be omissible before  and  of the endings of 1st du. and pl.: thus,, etc.; but no such forms are quotable.

648. It is not possible at present to draw a distinct line between those subjunctive forms of the older language which should be reckoned as belonging to the present-system and those which should be assigned to the perfect — or even, in some cases, to the reduplicated aorist and intensive. Here will be noticed only those which most clearly belong to this class; the more doubtful cases will be treated under the perfect-system. Except in first persons (which continue in use as "imperatives" down to the later language), subjunctives from roots having unmistakably a reduplicated present-system are of far from frequent occurrence.

649. The subjunctive mode-stem is formed in the usual manner, with the mode-sign and  of the root-vowel, if this is capable of such strengthening. The evidence of the few accented forms met with indicates that the accent is laid in accordance with that of the strong indicative forms: thus, from √, the stem would be ; from √, it would be (but  later). Before the mode-sign, final radical would be, in accordance with analogies elsewhere, dropped: thus,  from √,  from √ (all the forms actually occurring would be derivable from the secondary roots  and ).

650. Instead of giving a theoretically complete scheme of inflection, it will be better to note all the examples quotable from the older language (accented when found so occurring).

a. Thus, of 1st persons, we have in the active — in the middle,.

b. Of other persons, we have with primary endings in the active (with double mode-sign: 560 e),  (do.)