the Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. The majority of the remaining verbs form...

as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished from the Germanic strong verbs by the fact that their past tense form is marked by an inflection...

All Indo-European verbs that passed into Germanic as functioning verbs were strong, apart from the small group of irregular verbs discussed below. The...

Look up strong verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strong verb may refer to: Germanic strong verb, a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes...

Verbs in Proto-Germanic were divided into two main groups, called "strong" and "weak", according to the way the past tense is formed. Strong verbs use...

example of the latter is provided by the strong and weak verbs of the Germanic languages; the strong verbs inherited their method of making past forms...

demonstrate suppletion; the verb do; and the defective modal verbs. Many irregular verbs derive from Germanic strong verbs, which display the vowel shift...

conjugation of Germanic strong verbs such as sing/sang/sung. While Germanic umlaut has had important consequences for all modern Germanic languages, its...

strong verbs to become weak. As German is a Germanic language, the German verb can be understood historically as a development of the Germanic verb....

Heidelberg: Winter. Bammesberger, Alfred (1996). The Preterite of Germanic Strong Verbs in Classes Fore and Five, in "North-Western European Language Evolution"...