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Weak verb information


Weak verb may refer to:

  • Germanic weak verb, verbs in Germanic languages that form their preterites and past participles by means of a dental suffix
  • Weak inflection, a system of verb conjugation contrasted with an alternative "strong inflection" in the same language
  • Light verb, a verb that has little semantic content of its own

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Germanic weak verb

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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 distinguished...

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Weak verb

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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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Germanic strong verb

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tense by means of a dental suffix, and are known as weak verbs. In modern English, strong verbs include sing (present I sing, past I sang, past participle...

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Regular and irregular verbs

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regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...

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Arabic verbs

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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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Moroccan Arabic

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there is a one-to-one correspondence between weak roots and weak stems. However, form IX verbs with a weak root will show up the same way as other root...

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Dutch conjugation

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a verb's conjugation and therefore are complementary to each other. Dutch verbs can be grouped by their conjugational class, as follows: Weak verbs: past...

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Old Norse morphology

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Old Norse has three categories of verbs (strong, weak, & present-preterite) and two categories of nouns (strong, weak). Conjugation and declension are...

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English irregular verbs

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originally weak verbs, but came to be conjugated like the similar-sounding strong verbs bear and swing. In American English, the regular forms of verbs account...

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Germanic verbs

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non-finite). Germanic verbs fall into two broad types, strong and weak. Elements of both are present in the preterite-present verbs. Despite various irregularities...

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Principal parts

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learning, the principal parts of a verb are those forms that a student must memorize in order to be able to conjugate the verb through all its forms. The concept...

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Old Saxon grammar

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conflicted. Verbs in Old Saxon are divided into strong and weak verbs. Strong verbs indicate tense by a change in the quality of a vowel, while weak verbs indicate...

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Old English grammar

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English verbs are divided into two groups: strong verbs and weak verbs. Strong verbs form the past tense by changing a vowel, while weak verbs add an ending...

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German verbs

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German verbs may be classified as either weak, with a dental consonant inflection, or strong, showing a vowel gradation (ablaut). Both of these are regular...

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Gothic verbs

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fall-fell-fallen (strong) from fell-felled (weak). The following is a table of all the different types and subtypes of strong verbs. The "general" stem is used for...

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Beja language

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form of the verb. Weak verbs have a long final suffix -aa while strong verbs have a short final suffix -a. For both weak and strong verbs, the negative...

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Old Swedish

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with a vowel shift in the root of the verb, while weak verbs form it with a dental suffix (þ, d or t). The verbs in the table below are bīta (bite), biūþa...

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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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Nonfinite verb

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A nonfinite verb, in contrast to a finite verb, is a derivative form of a verb that lacks inflection (conjugation) for number or person. In the English...

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Middle Dutch

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Middle Dutch retained weak verbs as the only productive class of verbs. While Old Dutch still had two different classes of weak verbs (and remnants of a...

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English modal auxiliary verbs

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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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Light verb

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verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their...

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North Sea Germanic

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"lambs" with OHG lembir The development of Class III weak verbs into a relic class consisting of four verbs (*sagjan "to say", *hugjan "to think", *habjan "to...

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List of English irregular verbs

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the verb is weak or strong and whether it belongs to a subclass, and links to descriptions elsewhere. Information about the development of these verbs generally...

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Strong verb

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inflection, a system of verb conjugation contrasted with an alternative "weak" system in the same language Irregular verb, any verb whose conjugation does...

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Weak inflection

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to Germanic verbs. In this context, "strong" indicates those verbs that form their past tenses by ablaut (the vocalic conjugations), "weak" those that...

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Swedish grammar

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i-a-u is a good example. weak verb: same form in past tense singular and plural strong verb, no vowel change: appends -o strong verb, vowel change: supine...

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