However, it took a reduplicating present. When reduplicating VC, the consonant is also geminated. New nouns can be formed by adding new stems, reduplicating stems, or adding suffixes. The alternate forms for class 3 (reduplicating class) are shown with "hu-" 'sacrifice'. Strong (or vocalic) verbs display vowel gradation or ablaut, and may also be reduplicating. A type of iterative aspect can be expressed by reduplicating the imperfective participle. All of those Indo-European inherited reduplicating forms are subject to reduction by other phonological laws. By reduplicating the first syllable of a root a new word is formed. The reduplicating aorist involves reduplication as well as vowel reduction of the stem. Distributive numerals are formed by reduplicating the first consonant and vowel, e.g. "babar" 'two each'.