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# By the way, why is it a pack of "barking" and not "barkaing" dogs from the Western kennels?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kstati-pochemu-bolshaia-staia-laiushchikh-a-ne-laiashchikh-iz-zapadnoi-psarni-sobak/
- Published: 2025-04-30T06:33:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:21.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Education, Society, Humour

Because in the suffixes of the active present participles, that is, those formed with the suffixes -ushch (-yushch) / -ashch (-yashch), we write the letter u or yu if the participle is formed from a verb of the first conjugation, that is, one with the personal endings -u (-yu), -esh (-yosh), -et (-yot), -em (-yom), -ete (-yote), -ut (-yut). The letter a or ya is written in the suffix if the active participle is formed from a verb of the second conjugation, that is, any verb in -it, except *brit* ("to shave") and *stelit* ("to spread").

Hence the pack of dogs from the Western kennels is a *laiushchaya*, a barking one. Whereas the sneering lackeys are, by way of exception, shaving and spreading, but also spinning, seeing, depending, offending, hating, looking and enduring.

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