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 690. There is no occurrence, so far as noted, of the ending in verbs of this class. The Veda has, as usual, sometimes strong forms, and sometimes the ending, in the 2d pl. act.: thus,.

691. The participles are made in this class as in the preceding ones: thus, act. युञ्जन्त् (fem. युञ्जती ); mid. युञ्जान (but RV. has ).

692. The example of the regular inflection of this tense needs no introduction:

a. The endings and  are necessarily lost in the nasal class throughout in 2d and 3d sing. act., unless saved at the expense of the final radical consonant: which is a case of very rare occurrence (the only quotable examples were given at 555 a).

693. The Veda shows no irregularities in this tense. Occurrences of augmentless forms are found, especially in 2d and 3d sing. act., showing an accent like that of the present: for example,.

a. The 1st sing. act. and (for  and ) were noted above, at 555 a.

694. The roots of this class number about thirty, more than half of them being found only in the earlier language; no new ones make their first appearance later. Three of them, and  and, carry their nasal also into other tense-systems than the present. Two, and, make present-systems also of other classes having a nasal in the class-sign: thus,  (-class) and  (-class).