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For example, bore and found may be past tenses of bear and find, but may also represent independent (regular) verbs of different meaning. Another example is lay, which may be the past tense of lie, but is also an independent verb (regular in pronunciation, but with irregular spelling: lay–laid–laid).
French loanword conjugated perhaps by analogy with teach–taught; regular forms are now dialectal chide – chode/chid/chided – chidden/chid/chided: Strong, class 1: Or regular choose – chose – chosen mischoose – mischose – mischosen: Strong, class 2: clad – clad – clad: Developed from clad, the past form of clothe (see below)
Three words ending in -ay (lay, pay and say) change y to i and add -d (laid, paid, said). Various rules apply for doubling final consonants . If the base form ends in a single vowel followed by a single consonant (except h , silent t , [ citation needed ] w , x or y ), then unless the final syllable is completely unstressed the consonant is ...
A verb that does not follow all of the standard conjugation patterns of the language is said to be an irregular verb. The system of all conjugated variants of a particular verb or class of verbs is called a verb paradigm; this may be presented in the form of a conjugation table.
Note this means Swedish often has two different forms to simple verbs when they make sense both continuous and non-continuous – English has only one such fully functional pair remaining, and it happens to share this one with Swedish att lägga (sig) ("to lay") and "att ligga" (to lie) – "Lay down so you can lie down" = "Lägg dig ner så du ...
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The defective, preterite-as-present verb *o-c ' to be, lie in a place ' is always used with the prefix -on-(except when head of a verbal compound), i.e. on-o-c ' it is there '. The irregular verb cah ' to be ' in combination with the prefix on-may indicate either location or existence, e.g. oncateh ' they exist, they are (at a location) '.