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Participles in Old English

Voice

Tense

Active

Passive

NE

Present

berende

—

bearing

secзende

—

saying

зanзende

—

going

farende

—

‘travelling’

Past

зезān

зеboren

gone, born

зefaren

зesǽdd

‘who has depar­ted, said’

Morphological classifications of verbs.

Strong verbs. There were about three hundred strong verbs in OE. They formed their stems by means of vowel gradation (ablaut) and by adding certain suffixes.

The classes of strong verbs.

Strong Verbs in Old English

Principal

forms

Classes

Infinitive

Past Singular1

Past Plural

Partici­ple II

NE

1

wrītan

wrāt

writon

writen

write

2

(a) cēosan

(b) būзan

cēas

bēaз

curon buзon

coren bозеn

choose

bow

3

(a) findan

(b) helpan

(c) feohtan

fand

healp

feaht

fundon

hulpon

fuhton

funden holpen fohten

find

help

fight

4

beran

bær

bǽron

boren

bear

5

(a) cweðan

(b) sittan

cwæð

sæt

cwǽdon

sǽton

cweden

seten

‘say’

(obs. quoth)

sit

6

scacan

scōc

scōcon

scacen

shake

7

(a) hātan

(b) зrōwan

hēt (heht)

зrēow

hēton (hehton)

зrēowon

hāten зrōwen

‘call’, ‘name’

grow

Weak verbs.The weak verbs derived their Past Tense stem and the stem of Participle II from the Present Tense stem with the help of the dental suffix.

The classes of weak verbs.

Weak Verbs In Old English

Principal

forms

Classes

Infinitive

Past Tense

Participle II

NE

I

-an/-ian

-de/-ede/-te

-ed/-d/-t

(a) styrian

(b) temman

(c) dēman

(d) cēpan

(e) tellan

(f) þyncan

styrede

teraede

dēmde

cēpte

tealde

þūhte

styred

temed

dēmed

cēped

teald

þūht

stir

tame

deem

keep

tell

thin

II

-ian

-ode

-od

lōcian

lōcode

lōcod

look

III

-an

-de

-d

libban

habban

lifde

hæfde

lifd

hæfd

live

have

Class 1: includes regular and irregular verbs.The verbs of the Class I, being i-stems, originally contained the element [-i/-j] between the root and the endings. This caused palatal mutation of the root vowel, and the lengthening of consonants. [-i/-j] was lost in all verbs before the age of writing.

Two groups of verbs in Class I – types (e) and (f) had an interchange of root-vowels: the Infinitive had a mutated vowel like all the verbs of ClassI, while the other two forms retained the original non-mutated vowel. These verbs are called irregular in Class1

Minor groups of verbs.

Preterite-present or past-present verbs. Originally the Present tense forms of these verbs were Past tense forms (or, more precisely, IE perfect forms, denoting past actions for the present). Later these forms acquired a present meaning but preserved many formal features of the Past tense. Mos of these verbs had new forms of the Past tense built with the help of the dental suffix. Some of them also acquired the forms of the verbals: Participles and Infinitives; mos of the verbs dfid not have a full paradigm and were in this sense “defective”