Conjugation of ДАТЬ?

[E Wayles Browne]

Maybe it'll be enough for your student if you say "Verbs nowadays add either -e- or -i- between the verb stem and the present-tense endings, but there used to be a little group of 5 verbs that didn't add any vowel--they added the endings right on to dad- for 'give', to ed- for 'eat', and there also used to be vêd- for 'know', ima- for 'have' and jes- for 'be'." That's what "athematic" means--no vowel between the verb and the endings.

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Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Stanislav Chernyshov <extraclass at LEARNRUSSIAN.RU>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Conjugation of ДАТЬ?

Dear Peter,

This verb belongs to an old conjugation type V class (there were quite
a few), conjugation of the verb есть is pretty close to that of дать
(apart from 3rd person pl).
cf.: http://tezaurus.oc3.ru/docs/1/articles/3/3/5/

Best regards,

Stanislav Chernyshov

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