The History of Old English Verbs

Old english and old norse were close enough in structure that english could borrow norse verbs in their inal forms and tenses. And that's generally what happened. When those norse strong verbs were borrowed into english, it was the last time english did that on a large scale. But when norman french arrived a short time later, most of their french verbs came in as weak verbs. English just added an e d to the end. So we've seen a general evolution of verbs from strong verbs to weak verbs over time. Today we prefer fixed word forms, and we tend to use that fixed verb form and justicanidea on the end. We still struggle with the correct