| 31. | For most weak verbs this was not an issue, because they had stems that were formed with various vowel suffixes.
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| 32. | Weak verbs were divided into five main classes, of which four survived into the distinct history of the daughter languages.
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| 33. | An example class 1 weak verb * " dailijan " " to divide " is shown here in the present tense.
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| 34. | Strong verbs, unlike weak verbs, are conjugated by umlaut, but they rely on them much less to distinguish forms and conjugations.
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| 35. | The dialect of the L�tschental, for instance, preserved three distinct classes of weak verbs until the beginning of the 20th century.
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| 36. | By analogy some strong verbs were also turned into weak verbs, sometimes only by adding the weak past ending "-de ".
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| 37. | In modern Icelandic, the first person singular ending was replaced by "-i " in all weak verbs, and the ri-verbs followed suit.
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| 38. | By nature, these verbs were almost always transitive, and even today, most weak verbs are transitive verbs formed in the same way.
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| 39. | The linguistic trends of borrowing foreign verbs and verbalizing nouns have greatly increased the number of weak verbs over the last 1, 200 years.
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| 40. | Weak verbs distinguish the tenses of the indicative and subjunctive primarily by adding a suffix with a dental ( t, d, or ?).
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