• In the Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are...
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  • being non-finite). Germanic verbs fall into two broad types, strong and weak. Elements of both are present in the preterite-present verbs. Despite various...
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  • Look up weak verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Weak verb may refer to: Germanic weak verb, verbs in Germanic languages that form their preterites...
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  • off of Proto-Germanic. In modern English, as in all modern Germanic languages, weak verbs outnumber strong verbs. The "strong" vs. "weak" terminology...
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    Germanic weak and strong groups – although historically some verbs have moved between these groups. There are also a few anomalous cases: the verbs be...
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  • verbs). A few underived verbs that were originally strong j-present verbs acquired weak past tenses in Proto-Germanic. Weak verbs were divided into five...
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  • strong verbs to become weak. As German is a Germanic language, the German verb can be understood historically as a development of the Germanic verb. The...
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    Verbs in Proto-Germanic were divided into two main groups, called "strong" and "weak", according to the way the past tense is formed. Strong verbs use...
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  • Look up strong verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strong verb may refer to: Germanic strong verb, a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes...
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  • example of the latter is provided by the strong and weak verbs of the Germanic languages; the strong verbs inherited their method of making past forms (vowel...
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  • preserved as Germanic *furskōną, which was no longer a simple thematic verb, but had been extended with the class 2 weak suffix -ō-. Stative verbs became the...
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  • only four verbs. By the Old English period, new class I weak verbs had stopped being produced, but so many had been coined in Proto-Germanic that they...
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    relic weak verbs in Class III.[citation needed] Some varieties of Upper German, like Alemannic and Swabian, also share features with North Sea Germanic languages...
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    tense. The vast majority of verbs in all Germanic languages are weak; the remaining verbs with vowel ablaut are the strong verbs. The distinction has been...
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  • conjugation of Germanic strong verbs such as sing/sang/sung. While Germanic umlaut has had important consequences for all modern Germanic languages, its...
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    Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to...
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  • A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...
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  • relation to Germanic verbs. In this context, "strong" indicates those verbs that form their past tenses by ablaut (the vocalic conjugations), "weak" those...
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  • verbs Germanic verbs Hebrew verb conjugation Hungarian verbs Ilokano verbs Irish verbs Italian verbs Japanese godan and ichidan verbs Japanese verb conjugations...
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    traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (examples: turn down...
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  • Grammatischer Wechsel (category Germanic languages)
    paradigm of a Germanic verb. According to Grimm's law, the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiceless stops *p, *t, *k and *kʷ usually became Proto-Germanic *f, *θ...
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  • Suppletion (redirect from Suppletive verb)
    the verb minema ‘to go’ were originally those of a verb cognate with the Finnish lähteä ‘to leave’, except for the passive and infinitive. In Germanic, Romance...
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  • strongly influenced by the status of the verb at hand. The perfect and the passive participles of strong verbs in Germanic languages are irregular (e.g. driven)...
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  • affairs in Proto-Germanic. The verb may be combined with various prepositions to form phrasal verbs such as "go around" and "go off". The verb go is used to...
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    Dutch language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
    in syntax and verb morphology (for verb morphology in English verbs, Dutch and German, see Germanic weak verb and Germanic strong verb). Grammatical cases...
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    irregular verbs, see English irregular verbs. Many of these can be classed as Germanic strong verbs, such as sing (past sang), while others are weak verbs with...
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  • Subject–verb inversion unlikely with weak definite subject pronoun a. The dog came down the stairs. b. Down the stairs came the dog. - Subject–verb inversion...
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  • In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...
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    West Germanic is the preservation of grammatischer Wechsel in most verbs, particularly in Old High German. This implies the same for West Germanic, whereas...
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  • missing hamzah. Doubly weak verbs have two "weak" radicals; a few verbs are also triply weak. Generally, the above rules for weak verbs apply in combination...
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