hoti

See also: hoți

Pali edit

Alternative forms

Reduction of bhavati (“to be”).

hoti (root hū, first conjugation)

Conjugation of "hoti"

	Singular	Plural
Present
1st	homi	homa
2nd	hosi	hotha
3rd	hoti	honti
Imperfect
1st	ahuva or ahuvaṃ or ahuvā or ahuvāsiṃ	ahuvamhā or ahuvāma
2nd	ahuvo or ahuvā	ahuvattha
3rd	ahuva or ahuvā	ahuvu or ahuvū
Imperative
1st	homi	homa
2nd	hohi	hotha
3rd	hotu	hontu
Optative
1st	heyyāmi or heyyaṃ	heyyāma
2nd	heyyāsi	heyyātha
3rd	heyya	heyyuṃ
Aorist
1st	ahosiṃ or ahuṃ	ahumhā or ahumha or ahesumha or ahesumhā or ahosimhā or ahosimha
2nd	ahosi or ahu	ahosittha
3rd	ahosi or ahu or ahū	ahesuṃ
Future
1st	hemi or hehāmi or hohāmi or hessāmi or hehissāmi or hohissāmi	hema or hehāma or hohāma or hessāma or hehissāma or hohissāma
2nd	hesi or hehisi or hohisi or hessasi or hehissasi or hohissasi	hetha or hehitha or hohitha or hessatha or hehissatha or hohissatha
3rd	heti or hehiti or hohiti or hessati or hehissati or hohissati	henti or hehinti or hohinti or hessanti or hehissanti or hohissanti

Present active participle: honta, which see for forms and usage
Future active participle: hessant or hehissant or hohissant, which see for forms and usage

Some, e.g. the Pali Text Society dictionary, classify the imperfect given above as now being an aorist.

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “bhavati”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

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