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Old July 21, 2009, 11:18 AM
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Он есет. Она есет. Оно есет. He, She, It eats.
I guess "eat" is wrong, as it's irregular. Should be 'Он/Она/Оно ест.'

I think a few others might be irregular as they didn't translate over with babble-fish, but I'm still in the process of investigating.

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Я видею. I see.
Ah, 'see' isn't irregular, but has some "spelling rules" issues. Since the stem ends with "д" (It's because the verb for 'see' gets conjugated in the second conjugation. See below.) it gets changed to "ж", but then since that cannot be followed by "ю", that gets changed to "у". So the correct conjugation is "Я вижу." ('Ya vee'zhoo' ?)


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Мы бегоем. We run.
Woops, this one I just mis-spelled. Infinative is "бегать", thus the 'o' just needs changed to an 'a'. "Мы бегаем."

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Они сидеют. They sit.
Last but not least, this one was wrong. It should be "Они сидят", but I can't for the life of me figure out why 'ею' becomes 'я'. It could just be irregular, but I'm having trouble confirming that.

Final note: Ah, "Sit" is like "See". Despite the fact that neither end with "ить", they are a few of the exceptions that are still in the "second conjunction". I sure managed to pick some tricky verbs to start on!

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