Immediately know conjugation of class II verb?
As you answer this question, please don't tell me "you don't need to know this, it's above your level." I've been studying Russian for 3 years and live in Russia now.
So for most type II verbs, often times the 1st person singular has a different pattern than the rest of the conjugations. For example:
пов'есить -- пов'ешу пов'есишь пов'есит пов'есим пов'есите пов'есят
люб'ить -- люб'лю л'юбишь л'юбит ...
сад'иться -- са'жусь сад'ишься сад'ится ...
Most of the time there's a shift in stress or a consonant change or both. It's rare to find verbs like говорит where the pattern is basic.
But when is there only a shift in stress? When is there only a consonant change? When is there both?
Are there any patterns? Is there a way to look at a class II verb and where it's stressed in the infinitive and say "Oh, so all I need to know is that there's a shift in stress after the 1st person singular?" Or do I have to memorize for each verb what to do?
Here's what I have noticed:
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* Usually verb stems with a б, в, м, н, п have an "л" added in the first person singular, and then if the last syllable of the infinitive is stressed, the stress shifts to the second-to-last syllable. любить and купи́ть are examples. Easy enough, I haven't found any exceptions
* Usually verb stems with a д, г, з, с, т, ст have a consonant change in the first person singular. But some of these verbs have a shift in stress (водить, носить) , some of them don't (сад'иться).
* говорить has no changes after the 1st person singular, подари́ть and смотреть have stress shifts. Why?
