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 (lubano).
  • 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 (točeno).
  • Western: vontere coniugazia, infinitive ending in -en (tocen).
  • Southern: vutera konjugacja, infinitive ending in -enu (točenu).

• Third conjugation:
  • Northern: třdí konjugacja, infinitive ending in -ínu/-ýnu (dělínu).
  • Central: trde konjugacja, infinitive ending in -eno (delēno).
  • Western: tert coniugazia, infinitive ending in -an (delan).
  • Southern: trdije konjugacja, infinitive ending in -ijenu (djelijenu).

In all of dialects, the final vowel tends to lost and shorten colloquially, except in the Western dialects where such changes were regarded as standard.

Non-finite forms

Present participle

Present participle are usually formed by these endings:

	1	2	3
Northern	-u	-ou	-í