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As noted earlier, without
knowledge of the verb class and transitivity specification of a given Tamil
verb, non-Tamils cannot reliably form grammatically correct forms of the
verb.There are a few patterns that can be guessed at; any verb that
ends in Ç a, such as ¼¹ nada, is a member of Graul's
class VII; most verbs with the structure CVCVCCV, VCVVNC-u, (ÂÔõÞ
vaangu, ×»Ô¹¡Þ todakku, »Õç£ä tirumbu, etc.) can
probably be placed in Graul's class III. But many others may belong to more
than one class, with intransitive and transitive possibilities.
Vasu Renganathan
Sat Nov 2 21:16:08 EST 1996