| 41. | Arguably, all seven classes of strong verbs are represented in Gothic by at least one preterite-present verb.
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| 42. | Classes i through v tend to co-occur with preterite classes I through V, although there are many exceptions.
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| 43. | Indo-European languages formerly used reduplication to form a number of verb forms, especially in the preterite or perfect.
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| 44. | The St . Ouennais origins of Sercquiais can be seen in the 2nd and 3rd person plural forms of the preterite.
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| 45. | The primary forms are a plain present, a third person singular present, and a preterite ( past ) form.
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| 46. | This is the easiest way to distinguish preterite forms of " wi % % en " from present tense forms.
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| 47. | Note that most of these so-called preterite forms are most often used in the subjunctive mood in the present tense.
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| 48. | The first example, being the preterite, refers only to actions completed once in the remote past, or distant past.
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| 49. | The future and conditional tenses ( and in some irregular verbs, the preterite ) make a distinction between eclipsis to after ).
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| 50. | Preterite-present verbs are primary verbs in which the PIE present was lost, and the perfect was given a present meaning.
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