Round 8: Tossup 5

The Wati language has l (“ell”), null, n, and ng (“ing”) classes for this process, among the most in the Pama–Nyungan family. Per the title of a Franz Bopp paper, this process’s rules in Sanskrit contrast with those in Greek, Latin, Persian, and Germanic languages. Modern Hebrew eliminated the “vav-consecutive” construction for this process. In Japanese, words called “ichidan” remove or replace the final kana via this process, unlike “godan” words. (-5[1])In the French preterite form, this process (10[1])replaces the final “er” (“E-R”) and replaces it with “ai” (“A-I”) for the first- (-5[1])or third-person. In contrast to declension for nouns or adjectives, this process is the inflection of verbs. For 10 points, name this process in which verbs are modified to match categories (10[1])like grammatical person, as in the difference between “I buzz” and “he buzzes.” ■END■ (10[1])

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Buzzes

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