| 41. | The past tense endings were always identical, and resembled those of strong verbs, but prefixed with a dental infix.
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| 42. | In Old English, there were seven major classes of strong verb; each class has its own pattern of stem changes.
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| 43. | The Germanic strong verb, occurring in Germanic languages including German and English, is characterised by a vowel shift called ablaut.
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| 44. | The situation is similar with the strong verbs in suppletive forms and thus follow an exceptionally unpredictable pattern of conjugation.
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| 45. | 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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| 46. | An example verb " * neman " " to take " is shown here to illustrate the inflection of strong verbs.
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| 47. | There are more than 200 strong and irregular verbs, and there is a gradual tendency for strong verbs to become weak.
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| 48. | This is the primary mode of distinction of tenses, in contrast with the radical vowel changes characteristic of the strong verbs.
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| 49. | There are more than 200 strong and irregular verbs, but there is a gradual tendency for strong verbs to become weak.
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| 50. | A variety of umlaut occurs in the second and third person singular forms of the present tense of some Germanic strong verbs.
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