verbul a fi
I've noticed that sometimes instead of conjugated form for 3d sing.person "este" or "e" could be used the form "i".
For example: "Aduce Mariuca si un pui fript, care-i castaniu ca o vioara veche".
Why is it so?
Are there some other verbs that can be conjugated in such non classical manner?

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the "i" that you see comes from  "îi" i.e. "care  îi castaniu ca o vioara veche". Now you might have noticed Romanians like to shorten words, "îi" is just a popular way of replacing "este". People use "îi" instead of "este" only when speaking, never in writing (ok, perhaps the uneducated do). Hope this helps :)

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-i ... is the short form of  "este" as in English: I am - I'm :)

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