Veslovian/Verbs

The Veslovian verbs are divided to 3 conjugation groups for non-ablauting ones (weak) and 7 groups for ablauting ones (strong). However, such divisions only found in the past participle forms.

Groups

Groups are ordered largely according to the Latin conjugation groups, so lubanu "to love", točenu "to cover", and dělínu "to divide" translates to Latin amāre, tegere, and partīre. Despite its dialectal diversity, the prototypical verbs are always the same.

• First conjugation:
  • Northern: prmí konjugacja, infinitive ending in -anu (lubanu).
  • Central: prme konjugacja, infinitive ending in -anu (lubanọ̄).
  • Western: perm coniugazia, infinitive ending in -an (luban).
  • Southern: prmije konjugacja, infinitive ending in -anu (lubanu).

• Second conjugation:
  • Northern: vutera konjugacja, infinitive ending in -enu (točenu).
  • Central: votera konjugacja, infinitive ending in -eno (točenọ̄).
  • Western: vontere coniugazia, infinitive ending in -en (tocen).
  • Southern: vutera konjugacja, infinitive ending in -enu (točenu).

• Third conjugation (třdí konjugacja) consisting of verbs with infinitive ending in -ínu/-ýnu, and the prototypical verb is dělínu ("to divide", Latin partīre).
  • Northern: třdí konjugacja, infinitive ending in -ínu/-ýnu (dělínu).
  • Central: trde konjugacja, infinitive ending in -eno (delēnọ̄).
  • Western: tert coniugazia, infinitive ending in -an (delan).
  • Southern: trdije konjugacja, infinitive ending in -ijenu (djelijenu).

Non-finite forms

Present participle

Present participle are usually formed by these endings:

	1	2	3
Northern	-u	-ou	-í