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 luvanu "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 -énu (luvénu).
  • Western: perm coniugazia, infinitive ending in -en (lîven).
  • Southern: prme konjugacja, infinitive ending in -ajeno (lavajeno).

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

• Third conjugation:
  • Northern: třdí konjugacja, infinitive ending in -énu (dělénu).
  • Western: tert coniugazia, infinitive ending in -an (delan).
  • Southern: trde konjugacja, infinitive ending in -eno (deleno).

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.

1st conjugation

	Northern	Southern	Western
Infinitive	luvonu	luvono	luvon

Present participle

Present participle are usually formed by these endings:

	1	2	3
Northern	luvoudo	tečedo	děledo
Southern	levodo	tēčedo	dēledo
Western	livot	ticêt	dilêt

Past participle

Past participle are either formed by adding a dental suffix (such verbs are known as weak ones), changing the root vowel (ablaut), or reduplicating the stem. Let's start from the most regular ones (dental).

	1	2	3
Northern	luvédo	tečédo	díldo
Southern	levedo	tečedo	dēldo
Western	lîvêt	ticêt	dîlt