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=== Slavic languages === The following table provides examples of subject pro-drop in [[Slavic languages]]. In each of these examples, the 3rd person masculine singular pronoun 'he' in the second sentence is inferred from context. {| class="wikitable" |+Subject pro-drop in Slavic languages !language ! ! |- |[[Belarusian language|Belarusian]] |''Бачу [яго].'' |''Ідзе.'' |- |[[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] |''Виждам го.'' |''Идва.'' |- |[[Czech language|Czech]] |''Vidím ho.'' |''Jde.'' |- |[[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] |''Го гледам.'' |''Доаѓа.'' |- |[[Polish language|Polish]] |''Widzę go.'' |''Idzie.'' |- |[[Russian language|Russian]] |''Вижу [его].'' | ''Идёт.'' |- |[[Serbo-Croatian]] |''Vidim ga.'' / ''Видим га.'' | ''Dolazi.'' / ''Долази.'' |- |[[Slovene language|Slovene]] |''Vidim ga.'' |''Prihaja.'' |- |[[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] |''Бачу [його].'' | ''Іде.'' |- | |'''<nowiki/>'(I)''' see [him].' |'('''He''') is coming.' |} In the East Slavic languages even the objective pronoun "'''его'''" can be omitted in the present and future tenses (both imperfect and perfective). In these languages, the missing pronoun is not inferred strictly from pragmatics, but partially indicated by the morphology of the verb (Виж'''у''', Виж'''дам''', Widz'''ę''', Vid'''im''', etc...). However, the past tense of both imperfective and perfective in modern East Slavic languages inflects by gender and number rather than the person due to the fact that the present tense conjugations of the copula "to be" (Russian ''быть'', Ukrainian ''бути'', Belarusian ''быць'') have practically fallen out of use. As such, the pronoun is often included in these tenses, especially in writing.
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