• aspects of these verbs, showing how they developed out of PIE, and how they came to have their present diversity. The Germanic verb system carried two...
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  • 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...
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  • In the Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are...
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    forms. Proto-Germanic verbs have two voices, active and passive, the latter deriving from the PIE mediopassive voice. The Proto-Germanic passive existed...
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    List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents Germanization Anglicization Germanic name Germanic verb and its various subordinated articles Germanic placename...
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  • 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 (vowel...
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  • conjugation of Germanic strong verbs such as sing/sang/sung. While Germanic umlaut has had important consequences for all modern Germanic languages, its...
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    following examples, finite verb forms are in bold, non-finite verb forms are in italics and subjects are underlined.) Germanic languages vary in the application...
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    West Germanic is the preservation of grammatischer Wechsel in most verbs, particularly in Old High German. This implies the same for West Germanic, whereas...
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  • 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. The...
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