United States. War Department, Dictionary of Spoken Russian — §25… (1945)
“ There are four classes of regular verbs. All have a vowel before the inf ending -ть. Class One, by far the largest, includes all regular verbs whose inf does not end in -овать (-евать) , -нуть, or -ить. ”
United States. War Department, Dictionary of Spoken Russian — §25… (1945)
“ Verbs in stressed [ovatj] stress the [uy] in the pr stem and draw back the stress in the ppp: переночую; образовать "to educate": образую, образует, образуй, образовал, образовала, but образованный "educated." Class Three. The inf stem ends in [nu] ; the pr stem drops the [u] , ending in [n] : кинуть "to throw," inf stem [kjinu-] , pr stem [kjin-] : pr кину, кинешь, кинет, кинем, кинете, кинут; note that the four endings which we write with [j] make the [n] soft: [kjinu, kjinj't] . The imv adds [-j] : кинь, киньте. ”
United States. War Department, Dictionary of Spoken Russian — §25… (1945)
“ Class One. The pr stem is formed by adding [y] to the inf stem: читать "to read," inf stem [čita-] , pr stem [čitay-] . The pr has the following endings: The S2 ending is written with ь. The full forms of the endings do not appear here or in Class Two, since the endings are unstressed (and come after [y] ) ; they appear in Class Three. The imv S2 is merely the stem: читай; the P2 adds [-tji] : читайте. ”
