Irregular conjugations

[ya-stranen.livejournal.com]

Until yesterday, I wasn't aware of the first person singular conjugations of дать and all the verbs that have that stem. I always thought it was «даю», but to my suprise, it was «дам». I was also suprised by the third person singular conjugation—«даст». Now, I know that Russian has many irregular verbs, but are there any others that are this different?

Comments

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Please do not miss the main point - that the forms you mention, the forms that surprise you so much, are NOT present tense first (and third) person singular, but future tense 1st and 3rd tense singular. Future tense forms, as well as past tense forms, sometimes differ very much from the present tense and infinitive forms.

[dmitryle.livejournal.com]

The confusion is justified here: дам used to be the present tense form, as ем still is.