Some common Church Slavonic verbs, such as <vjedjeti> (to know), <dati> (to give), <jasti> (to eat), <imjeti> (to have), have irregular present tense forms. Their present tense forms are similar to those of the verb <byti>.
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Since <dati> is perfective in aspect, these forms of <dati> have future meaning ("I shall give").
Why do some of the of the 1st and 3rd person singular forms end in a hard sign and some end in a soft sign? I would have expected the endings to be the same.
One source gives <dadite> as the 2nd person plural of <dati>. I assume this is because <dati> is perfective so the 2nd person plural has imperative force and is therefore replaced by an imperative form. Is this correct? Which form is more commonly seen?