| 1. | See Athematic accent / ablaut classes of PIE nouns for examples.
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| 2. | But its lack of a nominal categories, thematic and athematic.
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| 3. | Athematic verbs appear to be older, and show ablaut within the paradigm.
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| 4. | The infix itself ablauts like root athematic verbs.
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| 5. | For comparison, here is an example of an athematic verb,'be '.
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| 6. | In the other Slavic languages, the original ending generally survives except in the athematic verbs.
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| 7. | Inflected as the " Narten " athematic type, with lengthened grade in the singular and fixed accent.
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| 8. | Athematic verbs, and perfect actives and aorist passives, add the suffix instead, e . g ..
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| 9. | Consequently, the athematic verbs became a non-productive relic class in the later Indo-European languages.
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| 10. | Latin, for example, has only very few athematic verbs, while Sanskrit preserves a large number of these.
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