A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.11

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Each verbal root presents six phases or grades of action: active, neuter, passive, causal, desiderative, intensive. All these are distinguished by certain modifications of the letters of the root, and by certain prefixed and affixed syllables. Thus भू *bhú*, “to be,” undergoes the following modifications:

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