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The suffix /-uva/ is also productive in forming verbs from other parts of speech: збор/zbor ‘word’, зборува/zboruva ‘speak’, старт/start ‘kick-off (NOUN)’ стартува/startuva (VERB). Two other productive suffixes are the Greek /-sa/ (Greco-Turkish /-disa/) and the West European (from Latin through French to German to Slavonic) /-ira/. Verbs in /-sa/ are often perfective and form imperfectives by means of /-uva/ with prefixation deriving new perfectives: калај/kalaj ‘tin’, perfective калаиса/kalaisa ‘plate with tin’, imperfective калаисува/kalaisuva, прекалаиса/prekalaisa ‘re-tin (PRFV)’. Verbs in /-ira/ are often biaspectual but show a tendency to be treated as imperfective, with perfectives being derived by means of prefixation (see section 3.2.1): интерес/interes ‘interest’, imperfective интересира/interesira ‘interest’, perfective заинтересира/zainteresira. In some cases, the suffixes contribute to semantic differentiation: критика/kritika ‘criticism’, критикува/kritikuva ‘to critique’, критизира/kritizira ‘to criticize’. While some new loans permit formation freely with more than one of these suffixes, others do not: флерт/flert ‘flirt’ permits the formation of the verb флертува/flertuva but not флертира/flertira (see Минова-Ѓуркова/Minova-Ǵurkova 1966).
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