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	German Verbs, Regular and Irregular Verbs and Tenses
		Verbs in German are more diverse than in English; in this page we will learn their categories, and the most used tenses in German, note that this page is including only the important information you should know about in German verbs, and it doesn’t include details about each category or each tense.
		Strong verbs change in the singular second person familiar and third person forms, for example the verb nehmen “to take”, look at the side of the table.
		For the irregular verbs, they’re tricky too in forming their stem, sometimes the stem doesn’t look like the original verb at all, just like “I go” and “I went”, but these German irregular verbs change the vowel in the stem and, in addition, they take weak verb endings in the past tense.
	german.speak7.com /german_verbs (1004 words)

	Learning and Morphological Change
		The six strong classes were differentiated by their ablaut series, the series of vowels each took in the present (and infinitive), the preterit singular, preterit plural, and past participle.
		Verbs were presented to the network once for every 10 occurrences in the concordance; verbs that were not found in the concordance were given a frequency of 1.
		Weak verbs with high type frequency, with exceptions to be discussed shortly, were learned with weak inflections, and even after 5 generations, 80% of the high frequency strong verbs were inflected correctly regardless of the phonological consistency of their inflectional class.
	crl.ucsd.edu /~elman/Papers/hare_elman/hare_elman.html (11177 words)

	Introduction to Hebrew Verbs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Verbs (as well as nouns) are derived from “roots.” Roots are (usually) tri-consonantal groups that comprise the “essence” of the word’s meaning.
		Each of the three letters of any verb root is sometimes assigned one of the three letters, (Pey, Ayin, or Lamed) depending on whether it is the first of the letters (the Pey of the root), the second (the Ayin of the root), or the third (the Lamed of the root).
		A verb stem is an offshoot of the root that is used to indicate the properties of voice and aspect.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Grammar/Unit_Nine/Introduction/introduction.html (1098 words)

	STRONG VERBS 2, WEAK VERBS, THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE TERMS. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		His weak verbs made their tense changes by adding various forms of the dental suffix, as in English study, studied, studied and bake, baked, baked.
		The irony of the terminology is that strong verbs, more numerous during the Old English period, have been a slowly dwindling group in English over the centuries, while the weak verbs have become the dominant pattern in English.
		Many verbs that were formerly strong now use the weak pattern, and many more, such as weave, wove, woven, are in the middle of change from strong to weak, currently displaying weak forms in divided usage with strong ones (weave, weaved, weaved).
	www.bartleby.com /68/73/5773.html (235 words)

	Verb Classes
		Strong verbs are from Classes 6 and 7.
		Since most of the verbs that belong to a class have common characteristics, it will be helpful to memorize one verb from each class as a reference for other verbs in that class.
		The ultimate determiner to which class a verb belongs is not the verb root, but the way it forms past and present/future tenses.
	www.ibiblio.org /tamil/paadanool/unicode/lesson19.html (310 words)

	Middle Dutch verbs
		strong verbs: the past participle and the preterite are formed by changing the vowel in the verb stem.
		This means that we can divide the strong verbs into 7 classes, in which classes 1 to 6 are the counterparts of the strong verb ablaut classes in Gothic.
		The only differences in verb endings between indicative and subjunctive lie in the 3rd person singular present tense, and, for strong verbs, also in the 1st and 3rd person singular preterite.
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/mnlverbum.htm (743 words)

	German Grammar: Verb
		German verbs are words that describe a state of being or an action.
		Weak verbs: do not change the stem vowel in the past tense and the past participle and they’re considered like regular verbs in English.
		Strong verbs: do change the stem vowel in both the past tense and the past participle.
	www.germanlanguageguide.com /german/grammar/verb.asp (82 words)

	German Grammar: Verb Infinitives, Present Participles, Past Participles - Grammatik der deutschen Sprache: Verben, ...
		The infinitive form of a verb is the basic form found in dictionary entries and is equivalent to the English form with to + the simple verb, e.g., to see, to have, to know.
		Strong verbs all form their participles with the suffix -en, but the verb stem is unpredictable and often includes a stem vowel change (e.g., ge
		Mixed verbs form their participles with a stem change, like the strong verbs, but have the suffix -(e)t of the weak verbs.
	www.vistawide.com /german/grammar/german_verbs.htm (921 words)

	The Fowler Collection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The past and past participles of weak verbs were usually formed by adding dental suffixes to the present tense stem (as in the Modern English 'laugh', 'laughed', 'laughed').
		For the strong verbs, the stem vowels are changed (as in 'sing', 'sang', 'sung').
		Verbs in three persons were used in the singular of the present and past indicative.
	www.ibiblio.org /lineback/words/verb.htm (263 words)

	English verbs at AllExperts
		Verbs in the English language are a lexically and morphologically distinct part of speech which describes an action, an event, or a state.
		Verbs had more forms when the pronoun thou was still in regular use and there was a number distinction in the second person.
		The verb will, although historically not a preterite-present verb, has come to be inflected like one when used as an auxiliary; it adds -s in the third person singular only when it is a full verb: Whatever she wills to happen will make life annoying for everyone else.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/en/english_verbs.htm (3224 words)

	Inflection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Conjugation: verb inflectional paradigm (often involving number, person, tense, or mood).
		Verb forms are similarly complex, agreeing with the subject, the direct object and several other arguments.
		Latin is in fact more complicated, showing Ablaut in the verb paradigm, and also some verb Inflection for voice (which is realized only by syntactic means in its daughter languages), as well as a more complicated noun paradigm (with several patterns of declension, and three genders instead of the two found in most Romance tongues).
	inflection.iqnaut.net (1599 words)

	German Grammar - Grammatik der deutschen Sprache - German verbs - Weak, strong, and mixed verbs
		Verbs that belong to the German weak verb class all follow a basic, predictable pattern in every verb tense.
		Unlike the weak verbs, which use the same infinitive stem in the formation of every verb tense, the strong verbs have stem changes to help signify verb tense.
		The modal verbs are a subset of the mixed verbs that follow the same pattern as the verb wissen, in that they 1) have present tense stem changes, with the exception of sollen; and 2) are conjugated without personal endings in the 1st and 3rd persons of the present tense.
	www.vistawide.com /german/grammar/german_verbs02.htm (792 words)

	The Past-Tense Verb in the Noldorin of the Etymologies
		The strong past tense, which class includes chiefly verbs arising directly from basic stems (that is, verb-stems arising directly from simple bases with verbal meaning, such as KAT- shape, BAT- tread, SUK- drink, etc.), is characterized by lengthening or otherwise strengthening the root syllable and suffixion of original final *‑ē.
		Within the strong past tense there are, again, two chief means of root strengthening: a) lengthening or fortification of the root vowel, and b) nasal infixion.
		The weak past tense, which class includes chiefly verbs arising from derived verb-stems (that is, verb-stems formed from a root by suffixion of some derivational element, such as ‑ā, ‑tā, ‑yā, etc.), is characterized by the lack of root syllable strengthening and the suffixion of some past-tense marker, very often ‑nē.
	www.elvish.org /Tengwestie/articles/Hostetter/noldpat.phtml (3289 words)

	verbs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strong verbs do live but are endangered, especially in popular writing, such as novels and newspapers.
		Strong verbs are the white rhinos and the Bengal tigers of American English.
		For strong verbs are not merely strong or irregular.
	www.patrickkillough.com /books/verbs.html (791 words)

	Dutch Grammar :: verbs
		They are unavoidable, unfortunately, those verbs that refuse to abide by the regular rules of conjugation.
		Some auxiliary verbs are always followed by 'te', others by 'aan het', and some do not need any additions at all.
		Exercise 1 Verb stem -- derive the verb stem from the infinitive
	www.dutchgrammar.com /en/verbs/index.php (562 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview
		(usually the '-ed', although sometimes it is a '-t', or it is dropped altogether if the verb stem already ends with a dental sound); and the 'strong' verbs, which form their past tenses by a modification of the vowel sound in the root syllable of the verb.
		There is a different way of dividing the verbs into regular verbs, which comprises most of the weak verbs, and the irregular verbs, which describes the strong verbs, a number of weak verbs with irregular conjugations, and anomalous, or defective verbs.
		An example of a strong verb that has been converted into a weak verb is 'to glide', whose past form used to be 'glad'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1061407 (738 words)

	German Grammar Roadmap
		Many strong verbs have a stem vowel change in the present, simple past and even past participle.
		There is no rule for determining weak or strong verbs: they must be learned like gender of nouns and other vocabulary.
		Mixed verbs are verbs that exhibit characteristics of weak verbs and characteristics of strong verbs.
	www.tulane.edu /~germgram/verb3.html (319 words)

	Linguistics 310, Project 1 - Fall 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is generally assumed that the ratio of strong verbs to weak in modern English is much lower than in earlier periods of the language.
		Second, for each strong verb on the lists that has survived to the present day, record whether it is still strong or has shifted to the weak class.
		Calculate the likelihood that strong verbs overall and verbs of the different strong classes have become weak.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~kroch/courses/lx310/Projects/project1-310.html (434 words)

	VERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO FORM / LousyWriter.com teaches you how to write better and how to write correctly
		A strong verb forms its past tense by changing the vowel of the present tense form, but adds no ending; as, run, ran; drive, drove.
		A weak verb always adds an ending to the present to form the past tense, and may or may not change the vowel: as, beg, begged; lay, laid; sleep, slept; catch, caught.
		The verb bear (to bring forth) is peculiar in having one participle (borne) for the active, and another (born) for the passive.
	www.lousywriter.com /verbs_strong.php (752 words)

	Paradigms: Verbs 2
		The range of alternations found in any strong verb is indicated by the form of (1) the infinitive, (2) the 3rd person present sg indicative, (3) the 1st person preterite indicative, (4) the preterite plural, (5) the past participle.
		These forms are traditionally known as the principle parts of the strong verb, since from them a complete paradigm of the verb can be generated.
		An important subset of strong verbs are known as 'contracted' verbs.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/ugrad/OE/ParadigmsVerbs2Plus.html (498 words)

	Old English Aerobics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A strong verb is one that makes its past tense and past participle by changing the vowel of the root syllable rather than by adding a dental ending (-d, -t).
		A verb that adds a dental ending in the past and past participle is not a strong verb, even if it also changes the vowel of the root syllable.
		In Old English, however, there is nothing irregular about the strong verbs: they are numerous, and they fall into seven orderly classes, each marked by its own succession of root vowels.
	www.engl.virginia.edu /OE/OEA/notes/vstrong.html (127 words)

	Verb Tenses
		The simple past of sein (war, warst, etc.) and haben (hatte, hattest, etc) and all auxiliary verbs are also used regularly, even in speech.
		Some verbs are strong and end in -en.
		For a list of -en verbs and their tenses, go to Strong and Mixed Verbs.
	www.cybergerman.addr.com /verbs.html (523 words)

	Verbs - Past Tense
		However, there are many fewer strong verbs than weak verbs, so you should learn to recognize those and then assume that the rest are weak.
		You just need to memorize the forms of each verb (refer to the list of strong verbs and their forms in your textbook).
		In contrast, forming the past tense of weak verbs follows an easily recognizable pattern, and it is most efficient to learn what the pattern is and how to apply it rather than to memorize the forms of each individual verb.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/norwegian/grammar/past-tense.html (275 words)

	Lagelands Grammar - Glossary of terms - regular and irregular
		Strong verbs are actually regular, but their regularity works in quite a different way from weak verbs.
		Examples of strong verbs are brengen, blijven, geven, and wassen.
		Examples of irregular verbs are zijn, hebben, kopen and denken.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /dutch/grammatica/glossary_irregular_and_strong_verbs.htm (187 words)

	1101_2_choosing_strong_verbs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The last example here is the strongest; the verbs hovered and soared convey most precisely and vividly the actual motion of gulls in the air.
		Unlike the action verbs hover and soar, verbs formed from be, do, and have carry no sense of specific movement.
		The verb "had" does not carry a sense of specific movement nor does the verb allow the reader to form a specific idea or image in response.
	www.english.uga.edu /~msmith/1101_2_choosing_strong_verbs.htm (226 words)

	Developing a Strong Writing Style (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strong writing means creating a finished product without "snags" to get in the reader's way.
		Verbs are the muscles of language, making other words work.
		Strong verbs link directly to the five senses--touch, sight, smell, sound, and taste--and to familiar emotions.
	agcomwww.tamu.edu /market/training/power/develop.html (1240 words)

	Using Strong Verbs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strong: The lonely boy sat in the chair and cried.
		Strong: The sad little girl sobbed in her mother's arms.
		Strong: The girl squealed with excitement as she tore open the gift.
	teachers.santee.k12.ca.us /henderson/writing/strongverbs.htm (61 words)

	How to make active verbs work for you
		It's not that passive verbs are bad in themselves, but when they are overused, they hide the identity of the doer, they invite roundabout sentence construction, and they lead to awkward, unnatural-sounding prose.
		The verb was eaten is a passive verb.
		Weak verbs like do, make, perform, have and forms of the verb to be convey practically no sense of action, and so waste the function of the verb as the sentence's power source.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /tgeorges/write/les12.htm (1095 words)

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