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Verbs where the ablaut vowel was followed by a consonant cluster in Proto-Indo-European.
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There are two subclasses: class IIIa consists of verbs with m or n following the vowel, IIIb consists of the remainder. Class IIIb verbs may have various different vowels because of breaking in Old English.
The vowel pattern is:
Form | Class IIIa | Class IIIb | |||
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+r,h | +l | g,c,sc+ | others | ||
Present tense | -i- | -eo- | -e- | -ie- | -e- |
Past singular ind. | -a- | -ea- | -ea- | -ea- | -æ- |
Past general | -u- | -u- | -u- | -u- | -u- |
Past participle | -u- | -o- | -o- | -o- | -o- |