
Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong
The History of English Podcast
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The Difference Between Strong Verbs and Weak Verbs
In germanic languages, strong verbs have their own internal structure for changing tense. They don't have to rely on the e d or t ending of generic verbs like sing sang sung. But if we were to go back in time to the original indo european period, we would find that things were completely different. In other words, all verbs had an internal change to distinguish present and past tenses,. Like sing sang song and shak shook shaken.
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