| 3 | सुनोति sunóti |
सुनुतस् sunutás |
सुन्वन्ति sunvánti |
सुनुते sunuté |
सुन्वाते sunvā́te |
सुन्वते sunváte |
a. The forms sunvás, sunmás, sunváhe, sunmáhe are alternative with those given here for 1st du. and pl., and in practice are more common. From √āp, however (for example), only the forms with u can occur: thus, āpnuvás, āpnumáhe; and also only āpnuvánti, āpnuvé, āpnuváte.
B. u-class; root तन् tan stretch: strong form of stem, तनो tanó; weak, तनु tanu.
| 1 | तनोमि tanómi |
तन्वस् tanvás |
तन्मस् tanmás |
तन्वे tanvé |
तन्वहे tanváhe |
तन्महे tanmáhe |
| etc. | etc. | etc. | etc. | etc. | etc. |
b. The inflection is so precisely like that given above that it is not worth writing out in full. The abbreviated forms in 1st du. and pl. are presented here, instead of the fuller, which rarely occur (as no double consonant ever precedes).
699. a. In the older language, no strong 2d persons du. or pl., and no thana-endings, chance to occur (but they are numerous in the impv. and impf.: see below). The RV. has several cases of the irregular accent in 3d pl. mid.: thus, kṛṇvaté, tanvaté, manvaté, vṛṇvaté, spṛṇvaté.
b. In RV. occur also several 3d pl. mid. in ire from present-stems of this class: thus, invire, ṛṇvire, pinvire, çṛṇviré, sunviré, hinviré. Of these, pinvire and hinviré might be perfects without reduplication from the secondary roots pinv and hinv (below, 716). The 2d sing. mid. (with passive value) çṛṇviṣé (RV.) is of anomalous and questionable character.
2. Present Subjunctive.
700. The subjunctive mode-stem is made in the usual manner, by adding a to the gunated and accented class-sign: thus, sunáva, tanáva. In the following scheme are given all the forms of which examples have been met with in actual use in the older language from either division of the class; some of them are quite numerously represented there.
| active. | middle. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | p. | s. | d. | p. | |
| 1 | sunávāni | sunávāva | sunávāma | sunávāi | sunávāvahāi | sunávāmahāi |
| 2 | sunávas | sunávatha | sunávase | sunávāithe | ||
| 3 | sunávat | sunávan | sunávate sunávātāi |
sunávanta | ||
