A common morphophonemic variation occurs in some verbs whose roots end in -"n". When the root is followed by certain suffixes beginning with "i" or when it is word-final, the root-final -"n" changes to -"zh" (e.g., -"miin"-, 'to give something to someone' but "gimiizhim", 'you guys give it to me'). In Ojibwe linguistics, this is indicated when writing the root with the symbol (so the root 'to give something to someone' would be written ). There are also some morphophonemic alternations where root-final -"s" changes to -"sh" (indicated with ) and where root-final -"n" changes to -"nzh" (indicated with ).