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ROUMANIAN GRAMMAR.
IRREGULAR VERBS.
The study of the verbs in Roumanian is the easier for the fact that there is not a long list of what are called anomalous verbs, as in German or in French. Besides the verbs a ave, a fi, the conjugation of which we have already seen, the following verbs must be noticed:
- (1) A ṣti, ‘to know,’ which though belonging to the third class (according to its final i) is inflected as one of the second class:
| eŭ ṣtiŭ, ‘I know,’ |
eŭ ṣtiuĭ, ‘I knew,’ |
eŭ ṣtiussem. ‘I had known.’ |
- (2) A voi, ‘to will,’ which though regularly inflected may take the following alternative form in all its tenses:
Indicative Present.
| eŭ voesc, ‘I will.’ | eŭ vreŭ, |
| tu voeṣtĭ, | tu vreĭ, |
| el voeṣte, | el vre, or vrea, |
| noĭ voim, | noĭ vrem, |
| voĭ voiṭĭ, | voĭ vreṭĭ, |
| eĭ voescŭ, | eĭ vreŭ, or vréŭ. |
Imperfect. | |
| eŭ voiam, ‘I was willing.’ | eŭ vrém, |
Simple Perfect. | |
| eŭ voiĭ, ‘I was wiling.’ | eŭ vrusseĭ. |
Simple Pluperfect. | |
| eŭ voissem, ‘I had been willing.’ | eŭ vrussem. |
