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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A3 Verbs 511 / 600

Except for d/t-root verbs, only a handful of verbs fall into these classes. They are:

grepsti (grebe, grebao, grebla) scratch

gristi (grize, grizao, grizla) bite

musti (muze, muzao, muzla) milk

rasti (raste, rastao, rasla) grow

tresti (trese, tresao, tresla) shake, shiver

vesti (veze, vezao, vezla) embroider

-vesti (-veze, -vezao, -vezla)

The second -vesti (etc.) is a base many verbs are derived from, with the basic

meaning drive, e.g. odvesti (etc.) drive away. The verb grepsti (etc.) is rare, more

common is variant grebati (grebe). Of course, verbs are derived from the other

verbs listed above too, e.g. odrasti (etc.).

The following verbs belong to the d/t-root verbs:

bosti (bode, bo / boo, bola) stab, prod

jesti (jede, jeo, jela) eat

krasti (krade, krao, krala) steal

presti (prede, preo, prela) spin (yarn); purr

-vesti (-vede, -veo, -vela)

cvasti (cvate, cvao, cvala) blossom

mesti (mete, meo, mela) sweep

plesti (plete, pleo, plela) knit

Again, many verbs are derived from them, and the base -vesti (etc.) is used only to

derive verbs from, with the basic meaning lead.

The following class has major alternations:

inf pres-3 past-m past-f

k/g-root -ći -č-e -k-a-o -k-la

This class is called k/g-root for historical reasons – there are no g-root verbs in

common use today. All alternations in various forms are shown here, with vući pull

as an example (again, the original k is seen in past-m and pres-3pl):

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