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'I ate a chapati.'

b. 

--

You chapati eat-PST-MAS.2

'You ate a chapati.'

c. 

--

Sita chapati eat-PST-FEM.3

'Sita ate a chapati.'

d. 

-- 

 I field see-PST-1

'I saw the field.'

Table 4: The verb - 'eat' in past tense:

Number

Person Singular Plural
st
1 -- --
nd
2 -- --
nd
2 honorific -- --
nd
2 feminine -- --
3 -- --
rd
3 honorific -- --
rd
rd
3 feminine -- --
In past tense of Bhojpuri except  final stem, all vowel final and consonant stems

behave in similar way. The following table illustrates how  final stem and consonant

final stem behave differently in past tense.

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