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Weak verbs
| lemma |
archaic past simple |
archaic past participle |
contemporary weak forms
|
| bake
|
book
|
baken
|
baked, baked
|
| bark
|
bork
|
borken
|
barked, barked
|
| bequeath
|
bequoth
|
bequothen
|
bequeathed, bequeathed
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| braid
|
/
|
browden
|
braided, braided
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| carve
|
corve
|
corven
|
carved, carved
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| chide
|
chid, chode
|
chid, chidden
|
chided, chided
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| climb
|
clomb
|
clumb
|
climbed, climbed
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| dare
|
durst
|
durst
|
dared, dared
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| delve
|
dalf
|
dolven
|
delved, delved
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| ding
|
dang
|
dung
|
dinged, dinged
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| fare
|
fore
|
faren
|
fared, fared
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| fold
|
feld
|
folden
|
folded, folded
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| gnaw
|
gnew
|
gnawn
|
gnawed, gnawed
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| gripe
|
grope
|
gripen
|
griped, griped
|
| heave
|
hove
|
hove, hoven, heft
|
heaved, heaved
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| help
|
holp
|
holpen
|
helped, helped
|
| latch
|
laught
|
laught
|
latched, latched
|
| laugh
|
low
|
laughen
|
laughed, laughed
|
| load
|
/
|
loaden
|
loaded, loaded
|
| melt
|
molt
|
molten
|
melted, melted
|
| owe
|
ought
|
own
|
owed, owed
|
| pitch
|
pight
|
pight
|
pitched, pitched
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| quake
|
quoke, quook
|
quoke, quook
|
quaked, quaked
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| quench
|
/
|
quent
|
quenched, quenched
|
| reach
|
raught, rought
|
raught, rought
|
reached, reached
|
| seethe
|
sod
|
sodden
|
seethed, seethed
|
| shove
|
shave
|
shoven
|
shoved, shoved
|
| shriek
|
shright
|
shright
|
shrieked, shrieked
|
| smart
|
smort
|
smorten
|
smarted, smarted
|
| starve
|
starf, storve
|
storven
|
starved, starved
|
| stretch
|
straught, straight
|
straught, straight
|
stretched, stretched
|
| thread
|
thrid
|
thridden
|
threaded, threaded
|
| wax
|
wex, wox
|
waxen
|
waxed, waxed
|
| wend
|
went
|
went
|
wended, wended
|
| work
|
/
|
wrought
|
worked, worked
|
| writhe
|
wrothe
|
writhen
|
writhed, writhed
|
| yield
|
yold
|
yolden
|
yielded, yielded
|
Still going strong
| lemma |
archaic past simple |
archaic past participle |
contemporary strong forms |
contemporary weak forms
|
| bind
|
/
|
bounden
|
bound, bound
|
/
|
| burn
|
brent
|
brent
|
burnt, burnt
|
burned, burned
|
| burst
|
brast
|
bursten
|
burst, burst
|
/
|
| cleave
|
clave
|
/
|
cleft, cleft / clove, cloven
|
cleaved, cleaved
|
| creep
|
crope
|
cropen
|
crept, crept
|
creeped, creeped
|
| drink
|
/
|
drunken, dranken
|
drank, drunk
|
/
|
| fight
|
/
|
foughten
|
fought, fought
|
/
|
| find
|
/
|
founden
|
found, found
|
/
|
| glide
|
glode
|
glode
|
glid, glidden
|
glided, glided
|
| hit
|
hat
|
hitten
|
hit, hit
|
/
|
| leap
|
lept, lope
|
lopen
|
leapt, leapt
|
leaped, leaped
|
| let
|
leet
|
letten
|
let, let
|
/
|
| sing
|
/
|
sungen
|
sang, sung
|
/
|
| slide
|
/
|
slidden
|
slid, slid
|
/
|
| smite
|
smit
|
smit
|
smote, smitten
|
smited, smited
|
| spin
|
span
|
/
|
spun, spun
|
/
|
| win
|
wan
|
/
|
won, won
|
/
|
Obsolete strong verbs
Notes