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[kasak.livejournal.com]

I realize that the verb быть has lost its present tense in modern Russian (save for есть, but that's different), but I'm a bit curious. Does anyone here actually know the old conjugations for быть in the present tense?

я --?
ты --?
он/она/оно есть
мы --?
вы --?
они --?

I realize that they have no place in the language today, but that doesn't stop me from just wondering. If anyone could fill me in, it'd be appreciated.

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

They say that the language which stays the closest to the prehistoric Indo-European language is Lithuanian. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, used to say that he could understand Lithuanian because he studied Sanskrit. I served in the military in late 1980s, still in the Soviet Army, and I used to listen to how my Lithuanian company mates spoke between themselves. It definitely sounded somehow understandable (mostly through common roots,) though Lithuanian is not Slavic.