Example
The following table is a partial listing of the major verbal forms that can be generated from a single root. Not all roots can take all forms; some roots are often confined to particular stems. The verbal forms listed here are all in the third person singular, and they can all be conjugated in three persons and three numbers.
Root: bhū-, a class I thematic verb root.
Present stem: bhava-
Passive stem: bhūya-
Future stem: bhaviṣya-
| Primary | Causative | Desiderative | Intensive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present stem | Present | bhavati bhavate |
bhāvayati bhāvayate |
bubhūṣati | bobhoti / bobhavīti bobhūyate |
| Imperfect | abhavat abhavata |
abhāvayat abhāvayata |
abubhūṣat | abobhot abobhūyata |
|
| Imperative | bhavatu bhavatām |
bhāvayatu bhāvayatām |
bubhūṣatu | bobhotu / bobhavītu bobhūyatām |
|
| Optative | bhavet bhaveta |
bhāvayet bhāvayeta |
bubhūṣet | bobhavyāt bobhūyeta |
|
| Present participle | bhavant bhavamāna |
bhāvayant bhāvayamāna |
bubhūṣant | bobhavant bobhūyamāna |
|
| Passive | Present | bhūyate | bhāvyate | bubhūṣyate | |
| Imperfect | abhũyata | abhāvyata | abubhūṣyata | ||
| Imperative | bhũyatām | bhāvyatām | bubhūṣyatām | ||
| Optative | bhũyeta | bhāvyeta | bubhūṣyeta | ||
| Passive participle | bhūyamāna | bhāvyamāna | bubhūṣyamāṇa | ||
| Future stem | Future | bhaviṣyati | bhāvayiṣyati bhāvayiṣyate |
bubhūṣiṣyati | |
| Conditional | abhaviṣyat | abhāvayiṣyat | abubhūṣiṣyat | ||
| Future participle | bhaviṣyant | bhāvayiṣyant bhāvayiṣyamāṇa |
bubhūṣiṣyant | ||
| Periphrastic future | bhavitā | bhāvayitā | bubhūṣitā | ||
| Perfect | babhūva | bhāvayām āsa | bubhūṣām āsa | ||
| Aorist | Aorist | abhūt | |||
| Benedictive / precative | bhūyāt | ||||
| Injunctive | (mā) bhūt | ||||
| Causative | bhāvayati | ||||
| Desiderative | bubhūṣati | bibhāvayiṣati | |||
| Intensive | bobhavīti | ||||
| Past participle | bhūta bhūtavant |
bhāvita bhāvitavant |
bubhūṣita bubhūṣitavant |
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| Gerundive | bhavya, bhavitavya |
bhāvayitavya | |||
Taking into account the fact that the participial forms each decline in seven cases in three numbers across three genders, and the fact that the verbs each conjugate in three persons in three numbers, the primary, causative, and desiderative stems for this root when counted together have over a thousand forms.
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