Gujarati/Present
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[edit] Formation of present tense
The present tense in Gujarati is for most verbs formed by removing the infinitive ending વું vũ, placing a grammatical person marker in its place, and placing the appropriate present-tense form of the verb to be afterwards.
The formula thus follows the lines of: [verb stem + personal marker] [form of to be]
[edit] The verb to be હોવું hovũ (વર્તમાન)
The verb હોવું is irregular both in its stem (છ chh as opposed to હો ho) and in that it does not take an auxiliary (as it is itself the auxiliary used by all other verbs).
| I | હું hũ | છું chhũ |
| you | તું tũ | છે chhe |
| he/she/it | એ e | છે chhe |
| we | અમે ame | છીએ chhiie |
| you | તમે tame | છો chho |
| they | એ e | છે chhe |
[edit] Present tense endings
| હું hũ | ઉં ũ |
| તું tũ | એ e |
| એ e | એ e |
| અમે ame | ઈએ iie |
| તમે tame | ઓ o |
| એ e | એ e |
[edit] A regular verb: કરવું karvũ
Verb stem is derived by removing -vũ: kar
