B. This suffix is also found in the shorter form u, y. Antaa, antauta; löytää, to find, löytyä, to be found; muuttaa, to change (act), muuttua, to change oneself.
These verbs generally present some peculiarities in their conjugation.
(1) They usually have the old ending pi in the 3d sing. indicative present; antauupi, but antau is also found.
(2) The imperfect ends in si; antausin, antausit, antausi, etc. This s is the remains of an original t, showing that the termination u is only short for utu.
(3) The same t is preserved in the infinitive and passive—antauta, antautaan.
C. In the Kalevala and the Karelian dialect are found a great quantity of more or less irregular reflexive forms, which are often explained by supposing that the reflexive pronoun itse is added to the verb, and then weakened in various ways to ihe, ite, ik, k, etc. But this explanation is very doubtful.
For example. From muuttaa, to change, comes the form muuttain, I change myself.
| Sing. | Plur. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | muuttain | muuttaimme |
| 2. | muuttait | muttaitte |
| 3. | muuttaikse, or muuttaihe | muuttaivat |
The termination kse or ihe for the third person sing. is characteristic of these verbs. We also find the termination me for the first person sing., te for the second, and se or set for the third.