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Irregular Present Tense Verbs in Armenian

There are three verbs in Armenian which form their present tense by adding the ending -իս to their infinitive forms. These verbs are գալ - “to come”, տալ - “to give”, and լալ - “to cry”. Below are two examples. Լալ follows the exact same structure as the other two.

After mastering this lesson, these related pages might interest you: The Genitive Case, Cases of Nouns, Obligatory Mood Past Obligatory & Definite Pronouns.

Sources

https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/handbook_of_armenian.pdf

Other Lessons

• Prepositions and Postpositions
• present simple and present continuous
• The Locative Case
• Causative Verbs
• Adjectives
• Present Continuous Tense
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Participles
• This, That and the Other One
• Future Tense