about the grammatical term the eschatological interpretation Preterism The preterite list of glossing ... , the perfect tense most commonly functions as the preterite , and refers to an action completed ... istis d xistis e runt d x runt D x can be translated as preterite I led , I did lead or present perfect ... language French , the preterite is known as le pass simple the simple past . It is a past tense ... eus small Romanian In Romanian language Romanian , the preterite is known as perfectul simplu literally, the simple past or simple perfect . The preterite indicates a past accomplished action translated ... mostly in rural areas. Usage of the preterite is very frequent in written narrative discourse, the simple ..., the preterite indicates an action completed recently Tocmai l auzii pe George la radio. I have ... ser merser ir dormir r cobor r Italian In Italian language Italian , the preterite is called ... plural . Portuguese In Portuguese language Portuguese , the preterite is the pret rito perfeito . The Portuguese preterite has the same form as the Spanish preterite, but the meaning is like the composed ... sup Without the acute accent in Brazilian Portuguese . Spanish In Spanish language Spanish , the preterite ... person preterite form of ran, corr , whereas I ran five miles every morning would use the first .... imperfective aspect . The special conjugations for the yo form of the preterite are the accent mark ... distinction between the preterite and the present perfect . As the preterite denotes an action that began ... has tended to fade, with the preterite being used even for actions in the immediate pre present with continuing ... is used as the basic ir verb. Preterite in Germanic languages In Germanic languages , the term preterite is sometimes used for the past tense . English English language English s preterite usually called .... Preterite of go uses a completely different verb the Anglo Saxon wendan from where we get to wend . I ate breakfast late this morning. Preterite of eat . He ran to the store. Preterite of run . With the exception ... more details
person persons . The language had two simple grammatical tense tenses present tense present and preterite ... Verbs in Middle High German are divided into two basic categories, based upon the formation of the preterite strong and weak. Strong verbs exhibit an alternation of the stem vowel in the preterite and past ... preterite presents , which exhibit a strong preterite like vowel alternation in the present tense ... preterite, in addition to the dental suffix, and Class II, which covers the vast majority of weak verbs ... and preterite a result of umlaut from the jan ending . Weak, Class II verbs exhibit no changes in the stem vowels in the present and preterite, i.e., the stem vowel in the present tense remains the same in the preterite as well as in the past participle . An example of the weak paradigm ... Preterite colspan 2 align center Present colspan 2 align center Preterite ich l be ich l bete ich ... and subjunctive present and preterite, along with its principal parts. class wikitable colspan ... 4 align center Subjunctive colspan 2 align center Present colspan 2 align center Preterite colspan 2 align center Present colspan 2 align center Preterite ich gibe ich gap ich g be ich g be du ... vowel of the indicative preterite singular is often different from that of the plural forms. The 2nd person singular preterite indicative has yet another stem vowel it is usually the same as that of the preterite ... German but is the same as that of the weak verbs ent . However, the endings in the indicative preterite ... devoicing takes place in the 1st and 3rd person singular preterite indicative, where appropriate. The subjunctive ... endings in both present and preterite. In the present subjunctive, the vowel is generally the same as that of the infinitive throughout, and in the preterite, the vowel is the Germanic umlaut umlauted version of the preterite plural indicative vowel. The 2nd person singular preterite form has ... ie ie ou ie ou VIIf uo uo uo ie ie uo ie uo Preterite Presents Another important group of verbs are the so ... more details
In grammar, the perfective past is the perfective aspect of the past tense . In many languages, the perfective only occurs in the past tense this past perfective form has traditionally been called the preterite in languages with a Latin grammatical tradition, such as the Romance languages , and the aorist in languages with a Ancient Greek Greek grammatical tradition, such as Modern Greek , Bulgarian language Bulgarian , Sanskrit , and Georgian language Georgian . See also Imperfect imperfective past ling stub Category Grammatical tenses Category Grammatical aspects ... more details
ac he she will work ac they will work Past tense The conventionally used designations preterite ... of other languages. Preterite I The first preterite can be compared with the simple past in English. Preterite I is marked with i . class wikitable border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite I style background dfdfdf Person English colspan 5 style ... ic they worked The negative preterite I is formed by the auxiliary negative verb with the same ... border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite I negative style ... they did not work Preterite II The second preterite is a past tense with an evidentiality distinction ... observe the past event. The preterite II is marked with , which is historically related to the Finnish ... 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite II style background dfdfdf ... a c they evidently worked The negative preterite II is formed by including the auxiliary ... use a preterite form of the main verb and a preterite form of the auxiliary verb to be . Preterite III The Komi preterite III makes use of the main verb in the present tense and the auxiliary i ... 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite III style background dfdfdf Person English colspan ... working 2nd i you were working 3rd i they were working The negative preterite ... negative. class wikitable border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite ... 2nd i o you were not working 3rd i o they were not working Preterite IV The Komi preterite IV pluperfect makes use of the main verb in the preteri II form and the auxiliary ... 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite IV style background dfdfdf Person ... have evidently worked 3rd i a c they have evidently worked The negative preterite ... I have evidently not worked , i a y you have evidently not worked etc. Preterite ... more details
called preterite and conveying the meaning of all of the following English forms I did, I have ... the preterite and past participle, using a dental suffix. Later Germanic languages developed ... the most elaborate periphrastic constructions are still only either in present or preterite cf I would have done with would in the preterite and have in the present . Germanic verbs fall into two broad types, strong and weak. Elements of both are present in the preterite present verbs. Despite various ... in modern Dutch verliezen spaced ndash verloor spaced ndash verloren The preterite of strong ... grade in the dual and plural. The Germanic strong preterite shows the expected Germanic development ... endings, the remnants of which are seen in the Germanic strong preterite. The reduplication characteristic ... or preterite tense, either t or d . In Proto Germanic such verbs had no ablaut that is, all forms ... High German . Preterite presents The so called preterite present verbs are a small group of anomalous verbs in the Germanic languages in which the present tense shows the form of the strong preterite ... and are called preterite presents, since they have the meaning of the present tense and the form of the past or preterite tense. The Indo European perfect originally signified a current stative verb state of being rather than any particular tense. Since the preterite present verbs are non past and signify ... to see and wiedzie to know . Preterite presents in Proto Germanic The known verbs in Proto Germanic PGmc class wikitable Infinitive Meaning Class Present Preterite witanan know I wait wissa lisanan ... have room VI gam t gam sta Ablaut The present tense has the form of a vocalic strong preterite, with vowel alternation between singular and plural. A new Germanic weak verb weak preterite is formed with a dental suffix. The root shape of the preterite in Indo European ablaut zero grade serves as the basis ... wissen weten vitu vita ved veta preterite 1st & 3rd sg wissa wisse wusste wist vissa vissi vissi ... more details
tense 3rd singular b ett . The same vowel is used in the 2nd singular. The preterite 1st singular ... to the 3rd singular. The preterite plural budon . The same vowel is used in the 2nd singular ... formed a weak preterite but retained the strong participle, or rarely vice versa. This type of verb ... eliminated a great part of the old distinction between the vowels of the singular and plural preterite forms. The new uniform preterite could be based on the vowel of the old preterite singular, or on the old ... tense of the Preterite present verb preterite presents . In Limburgish there is a little more left. E.g. the preterite of to help is weer h lpe for the plural but either ich halp or ich h lp for the singular ... preterite is taken from the old preterite singular, and in the case of shine , the past participle has also assimilated to the preterite singular. ride rode ridden write wrote written shine shone shone ... two subclasses, depending on the vowel in the preterite singular 1a r tan r tu reit ritum giritan to ride ... diphthongises the spelling it ei . The modern language takes its preterite from the old preterite ... group characterised by the o vowel of the participle being assimilated to the preterite choose ... sometimes called class 2b has Old High German monophthongisation in the preterite singular biotan biutu ... and ou o . The modern preterite is based on the OHG preterite singular biegen bog gebogen ... effect as umlaut , but triggered by the nasal consonant. The preterite singular shows the standard ... called Brechung in preterite singular a ea before r and h this also affects the present ... an anomalous in preterite singular berstan to burst , bregdan to pull , frignan to ask . wiktionary ... is still relatively regular the preterite is mostly formed from the OE preterite singular, occasionally from the preterite plural. drink drank drunk en sing sang sung However, there are some ... bindan bindu band bundum gibundan helfan hilfu half hulfum giholfan Modern German takes the preterite ... more details
any variation of went for the general preterite of go instead, the word ode variant e ode was used ... ode he went plural odon is made up of a defective verb defective preterite base o and the weak ... ite , and so forth. Development of a new preterite In Middle English, ode evolved into ede ... of the various ode derived preterites of go , thus a variant preterite of wend absorbed the function. After went became established as the preterite of go , wend took on a new preterite, wended . In Scotland ..., and so went is the standard English preterite. Earl Spencer Spencer used yede to mean go with yode as its preterite form but as dialect. Origin of went Went , the modern past tense of go , was originally ... , also have suppletive past forms, namely the preterite ging of Dutch and German, g ng of Low Geman ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 for the Spanish pop music band Elefantes band Elefantes Spanish language Spanish for Elephants is a popular Hispanic children s song similar to the United States American song 99 Bottles of Beer . In Education Many students in Spanish Cozurro de mierda language Spanish I and II classes learn this song to help with their vocabulary and grammar. In Spanish I, the counting part of the song may help. In the case of the words ve a , ara a , and resist a , the tildes accent marks help the students with their accents and how to pronounce the words when they are present. The verbs ir and caber are irregular in the preterite tense, so the teacher may tell the students to sing the song as if it happened last week. Many young ESL students, or even grown immigrants, learn the song to help with their English. Cultural references There is a popular commercial shown on Latin American television primarily Telemundo for the Ford Focus North America Ford Focus that shows some men dressed in elephant suits in the car singing the song. When they arrive at a party, they realize that the invitation said elegante and not elefante. See also Nursery rhyme http shepline.com movement A Romanian Version of the song External links A website with an interactive lyrics section and music http www.juegosycanciones.com elefantes index.html English http www.juegosycanciones.com elefantes ele.html Spanish http www.itsasmallworld.co.nz Favourite Children s Songs From Around the World Category Folk songs Category Children s songs Category Spanish language songs Category Spanish language fr Elefantes ... more details
In linguistics , boundedness is an grammatical aspect aspectual feature that describes a situation as having a definite beginning or end, or both, not as continuing indefinitely. Thus the clause I ate fish describes a unitary, bounded action, as it implies both the beginning I started eating fish and the end I finished eating fish . The clause I was eating does not express a bounded action, because the verb form does not express either the beginning or the end. Similarly, I set off for home and I arrived home present the action as bounded, whereas I was going home and I was at home do not. Aspects Certain grammatical aspect s express boundedness. Boundedness is characteristic of perfective aspect s such as the Ancient Greek aorist Ancient Greek aorist and the Spanish language Spanish preterite . The simple past English simple past of English commonly expresses a bounded event I found out , but sometimes expresses, for example, a stative verb stative I knew . The perfective aspect often includes a contextual variation similar to an inchoative aspect or inchoative verb verb , and expresses the beginning of a stative verb state . See also Lexical aspect Grammatical aspect Category Grammar Category Verb types fr Aspect s cant non s cant ... more details
Subjunctive Imperfective preterite, Imperfective pluperfect class wikitable colspan 4 Grammatical ... style text align right Indicative Preterite khord m style text align right Indicative imperfect Imperfective preterite mi khord m style text align right Indicative perfect grammar ... Preterite progressive d sht m mi khord m style text align right subjunctive mood Subjunctive Present bekhor m style text align right Subjunctive Preterite khorde b sh m style text align right Subjunctive Imperfective preterite mi khorde b sh m style text align right ... Present khorde mish v d style text align right Indicative Preterite khorde shod style text align right Indicative Imperfective preterite khorde mishod style text align right ... Indicative Preterite progressive dasht khorde mishod style text align right Subjunctive Present khorde sh v d style text align right Subjunctive Preterite khorde shode b sh d style text align right Subjunctive Imperfective preterite khorde mishode ... more details
form, sometimes called the preterite , is a true tense in that its use always places the action in the past ... hours . German German language German uses two forms for the past tense. The preterite Pr teritum ... it. The perfect Perfekt In South Germany , Austria and Switzerland , the preterite is mostly used ... German have no preterite, but only perfect constructs. In certain regions, a few specific verbs are used in the preterite, for instance the modal verbs and the verbs haben have and sein be . Es ... a very important difference between the preterite and the present perfect perfect , and both tenses are consequently very common. The preterite is used for past actions when the focus is on the action ... of the subject as a result of a previous action. This is somewhat similar to the English usage of the preterite and the present perfect. Preterite Heute fr h kam mein Freund. my friend came early in the morning ... past and the German preterite, for example Gisteren was ik daar I was there yesterday . voltooid ... more details
Present mikhor d style text align right Indicative Preterite khord style text align right Indicative imperfect Imperfective preterite mikhord style text align right Indicative perfect ... Preterite progressive d sht mikhord style text align right subjunctive mood Subjunctive Present bekhor d style text align right Subjunctive Preterite khorde b sh d style text align right Subjunctive Imperfective preterite mikhorde b sh d style text align right ... khorde mish v d style text align right Indicative Preterite khorde shod style text align right Indicative Imperfective preterite khorde mishod style text align right ... Indicative Preterite progressive d sht khorde mishod style text align right Subjunctive Present khorde sh v d style text align right Subjunctive Preterite khorde shode b sh d style text align right Subjunctive Imperfective preterite khorde mishode b sh d style ... more details
preterite and perfect are used with denotations which are divergent from their usual meanings in the grammar of other languages. Preterite I The first preterite can be compared with the simple past in English. Preterite I is marked with in conjugation I. There is no past tense marker in conjugation ... 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite I style background dfdfdf Person ... you knew you sang 3rd they knew they sang The negative preterite ... cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite I negative style background dfdfdf Person ... you did not sing 3rd they did not know they did not sing Preterite II The second preterite is a past tense with an evidentiality distinction. It can be compared to the English perfect grammar perfect in which the speaker did not personally observe the past event. The preterite ... 0 cellpadding 2 colspan 5 style background cfcfcf Preterite II style background dfdfdf Person ... preterite II is formed either by including the auxiliary copular negative verb is not or with the negation ... cfcfcf Preterite II negative style background dfdfdf Person conjugation I English ... Auxiliary past tenses There are four past tenses in Udmurt which use a preterite form of the main verb and a preterite form of the auxiliary verb to be . Pluperfect I The Udmurt pluperfect makes use of the preterite I main verb and the auxiliary , was in third person singular, also in simple ... Pluperfect I is formed by the negative preterite I negative plus the auxiliary . class ... of the pluperfect II tense. One uses the preterite I third person singular form of the main verb inflected with a personal possessive suffix and the auxiliary . The other is the preterite I of the main verb with normal personal inflection and the preterite I form of the to be verb ... The negative pluperfect II is formed either by with the preterite II third person singular of the main ... more details
verbs, as illustrated below. Note that in the historical tenses the imperfect, preterite, and conditional ... . Exception the preterite impersonal neither undergoes lenition nor receives d . First conjugation ... ga thuigeadh Preterite The analytic form, used together with a pronoun for all persons except the 1st ... lang ga bheanna odh lang ga d ins odh Preterite As in the first conjugation, the bare root is used ... 600px lang ga deir , deirim, deirimid, deirtear Imperfect lang ga deireadh etc. Preterite lang ga d irt ... Preterite lang ga rug , rugamar, rugadh. ar n or rug etc. Future lang ga b arfaidh etc. Conditional ... ga bh odh , bh nn, bh te , bh mis, bh d s, bh t rowspan 2 Preterite independent lang ga bh , bh omar ... ga chloiseadh etc. regular lang ga chluineadh etc. regular Preterite lang ga chuala , chualamar, chualathas ... dh anadh etc. regular rowspan 2 width 100px Preterite width 100px independent lang ga rinne , rinneamar ... etc. regular colspan 2 Preterite lang ga fuair , fuaireamar, fuarthas. an n bhfuair etc. rowspan ... Preterite width 100px independent lang ga chonaic , chonaiceamar, chonacthas dependent lang ga faca ... ga itheann etc. regular Imperfect lang ga d itheadh etc. regular Preterite lang ga d ith etc. regular ... width 200px Present width 600px lang ga tugann etc. Imperfect lang ga thugadh etc. Preterite lang ga ... width 200px Present width 600px lang ga tagann etc. Imperfect lang ga thagadh etc. Preterite lang ... ga th adh , th inn, th ite , th imis, th id s, th it width 100px rowspan 2 Preterite width 100px ... fhanfadh na liom. na would wait for me. In the preterite, the particle lang ga n or is used . There is lenition ... eclipsis no eclipsis of vowels, because lang ga an already ends with n . In the preterite lang ... eclipsis in preterite lang ga n r lenition lang ga Nach dtuigeann Se n Gaeilge? Doesn t Se n understand ... more details
state Free state A man water , Kas n wa man a glass of water . Verbs There are three tenses the Preterite ... languages it is used to express the present . Weak verbs have a preterite form that is the same ... class wikitable Verb Preterite ad aorist Intensive aorist If to outdo ife ad ife ttife Muqel ... verbs class wikitable Verb Preterite ad aorist Intensive aorist Aru to write uri ad aru ttaru ... e mt 3rd m i y e e n 3rd f t e e nt Example verb afeg to fly with its four themes ufeg preterite , ufig negative preterite , afeg aorist , ttafeg intensive aorist . class wikitable rowspan 2 Person colspan 2 Preterite colspan 2 Negative Preterite colspan 2 Ad Aorist colspan 2 Intensive Aorist colspan ... ttafgent class wikitable colspan 2 Preterite Participle rowspan 2 Aorist Participle colspan 2 Intensive ... more details
is the so called periphrastic preterite, which is constructed with characteristic forms of anar to go ... existed in Catalan at least since the 13th century. In contemporary Catalan simple preterite indicative ... replaced by the periphrastic preterite in regular speech, although simple preterite indicative ... contemporary Catalan and Medieval Catalan is the revamping of simple preterite indicative desinences ... took place some time between 13th and 15th centuries. At the same time, simple preterite ... forms of subjunctive preterite. ref parla IPA pa br parlem IPA p m br parleu IPA p w ..., indicative imperfect preterite, simple conditional, and subjunctive preterite for all conjugations ... colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative ref name periphrastic pret In most Catalan dialects simple preterite indicative has been replaced by the so called periphrastic preterite ... Valencian has changed subjunctive preterite marks to r in all forms, by analogy with indicative preterite ... IPA se view br servien IPA se vien colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative ... br dormien colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative ref name periphrastic ... past participle, 1st person of indicative present, and all forms of indicative preterite, subjunctive present and subjunctive preterite. E.g. valdre gives valgut , valc , valgu , valgui , valgu s ... br bat eu ba tiew br batien ba tien colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative ... br eren ??? colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative ref name periphrastic ... br havies br havia br hav em br hav eu br havien colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite ... . As you have seen, present of anar is used as an auxiliary verb to form the periphrastic preterite ... 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative an br anares br an br an rem br an reu ... feien colspan 6 style text align center PreteritePreterite indicative fiu br feres br f u br f rem ... more details
and preterite sab a I knew vs. supe I found out , pod a I was able to vs. pude I succeeded , quer a ... and perfective. Here the word imperfect continues for the past imperfective, and the term preterite ... more details
No footnotes date February 2010 In linguistics , productivity is the degree to which native speaker s use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation . Since use to produce novel new, non established structures is the clearest proof of usage of a grammatical process, the evidence most often appealed to as establishing productivity is the appearance of novel forms of the type the process leads one to expect, and many people would limit the definition offered above to exclude use of a grammatical process that does not result in a novel structure. Thus in practice, and, for many, in theory, productivity is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process for the formation of novel structures . A productive grammatical process defines an open class , one which admits new words or forms. Non productive grammatical processes may be seen as operative within closed classes , but only previously formed and learned structures show the results of those processes. In standard English language English , the formation of preterite and past participle forms of verb s by means of Indo European ablaut ablaut for example, sing &ndash sang &ndash sung is no longer considered productive. Newly coined verbs in English overwhelmingly use the ending ed for the past tense and past participle for example, spam electronic spammed , electronic mail e mailed . There are more recent ablaut forms, however e.g. snuck as the preterite and participial form of sneak , or dove as the preterite of dive . Such cases are standardly said to have been created by analogy instead of by productive application of ablaut rules, though this may to some extent be begging the question . Similarly, the only clearly productive English plural plural ending is e s it is found on the vast majority of English count noun s and is the almost exclusive means used to form the plurals of neologisms, such as FAQ s and Muggle s . The ending en , on the other hand, is at least relativ ... more details
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Unreferenced date January 2010 The simple past , sometimes called the preterite , is the past tense of Modern English . It is used to describe events in the past. It may combine with either or both of two grammatical aspect aspects , the perfect grammar perfect and the progressive aspect progressive . When the simple past is employed in the subjunctive mood, it is called the subjunctive imperfect. Pronunciation If the base verb ends in IPA d or IPA t , the regular past tense ending ed is pronounced IPA d after all other unvoiced consonants it becomes IPA t , and in all remaining cases other voiced consonants and vowels it is pronounced IPA d . Form regular verbs The simple past is formed by adding ed to the end of an infinitive and removing the to , for example try becomes tried Form irregular verbs All the irregular verb s have different forms to go becomes went, to buy becomes bought, to cut becomes cut , etc. class wikitable border 1 Pronoun Example verb I stole of to steal I saw of to see Use One uses the simple past for actions or situations that one has completed in the past at a definite time. br The time can be given in the sentence br I came home at 6 o clock. br br The time is asked about br When did they get married? br br One uses the past simple for repeated actions in the past. br We walked to school every day. br br The past simple is used in stories to express actions that follow each other. br Charles entered the hall, looked around, took off his coat and put it on a chair. Category Grammatical tenses de Simple Past fa it Past simple ro Past Simple Englez ... more details
stems, but they kept the short vowel in the preterite and the past participle for example, in hear heard ..., in cost cost cost and burst burst burst . A handful of surviving preterite present verb preterite ... Indo European class of verbs that were conjugated in the preterite or perfect grammar perfect ... more details
aspect distinguished only in the past tense as preterite or imperfect . Grammatical Voice Voice ... to have done something are in the perfect aspect . Perfective In Spanish, verbs in the preterite ... Alejandro. They were eating some slices of pizza. Preterite pret rito indefinido The preterite is formed ... imos vosotros vosotras asteis isteis isteis ellos ellas ustedes aron ieron ieron Uses of the preterite ... and some fixed expressions. The following endings are attached to the preterite stem class wikitable ... by using the continuous form is a feature of the present and imperfect. The preterite never has .... In other contexts, the past subjunctive form always replaces it. Contrasting the preterite and the imperfect Fundamental meanings of the preterite and the imperfect Spanish has two fundamental past tenses the preterite and the imperfect. Strictly speaking, the difference between them is not Grammatical ... between the preterite and the imperfect and in certain cases, the perfect is often hard to grasp for English ... Yo jugaba I used to play , Yo le a I used to read , or Yo escrib a I used to write . The preterite ... in one stroke. The corresponding preterite forms would be Yo jugu I played , Yo le I read or Yo escrib I wrote . As stated above, deciding whether to use the preterite or the imperfect can present ... help one decide if the verb should be conjugated in the preterite or the imperfect. These expressions ... action preterite or a repetitive action or a continuous action or state imperfect in the past. Key words and phrases that tend to co occur with the preterite tense multicol ayer yesterday anteayer ... the curtain . The action starts and ends with this sentence. In Spanish, this would be in the preterite ... , in the preterite. Mientras cruzaba estaba cruzando la calle, me atropell un coche While I crossed ... to the specific event expressed by was run over , in the preterite. Siempre ten a cuidado ... use the expression used to in English. Me ba I took a bath Preterite used if this refers to a single ... more details
, OHG tior , OE d or , wild animal The use of sup 2 sup in the preterite of Class VII strong verbs in North and West Germanic, while Gothic uses reduplication e.g. Gothic haihait ON, OE h t , preterite ... more details
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