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Conjugation of Preterite-Presents in Old English

Infinitive

cunnan (NE can)

sculan (NE shall, should)

Present tense

Indicative

Singular 1st

cann

sceal(l)

2nd

canst

scealt

3rd

cann

sceal(l)

Plural

cunnon

sculon

Subjunctive

Singular

cunne

scule, scyle

Plural

cunnen

sculen, scylen

Participle I

—

—

Past tense

Indicative

Singular 1st

cūðe

sceolde

2nd

cūðest

sceoldest

3rd

cūðe

sceolde

Plural

сūðоn

sceoldon

Subjunctive

Singular

сūðе

sceolde

Plural

cūðen

sceolden

Participle II

cunnen, cūð

—

These verbs had noParticiple I; some preterite-presents built Participle I from the Present Tense stem, e. g. OE maзon, mæз, Participle I — maзende (NE may).

In OE there were twelve preterite-present verbs. Most of them did not indicate actions, but expressed a kind of attitude to an action denoted by another verb, an Infinitive of which followed the preterie-present, eventually preterite-present verbs developed into modal verbs.

Anomalous verbs had irregular forms. The verb willan had a past tense form wolde. Some verbs combined the features of strong and weak verbs. OE dōn had a week Past tense form with a vowel interchange and a Participle in –n like strong verbsn: dōn – dyde – зedōn.Būan-būde-зebūn.

Suppletive verbs.Two verbs were suppletive. OE зān whose Past tense was built from a different root: зān – eōde – зeзān and wesan,bēon. The verb bēon is an ancient IE suppletive verb. N nmany languages its paradigm is made up oif several roots (R. Быть, есть). In Oe the Present tense forms were the modifications of the roots *wes- and *bhu-.The Past tense was built from the root *wesan on the pattern of the strong verbs of the Class 5.

Conjugation of oe bēon, ne be

OE

NE

Infinitive

wesan

bēon

be

Pres. Indicative

1st p. sg

eom/am

bēo/biom

am

2nd p. sg

eart

bist/bis

-

3rd p. sg

is

biþ

is

Pl

sint/sindon

bēoþ

are

earon/aron

Pres. Subjunctive

Sg

sīe, sý

bēo

be

Pl

sīen, sýn

bēon

Imperative

Sg

wes

bēo

be

Pl

wesaþ

bēoþ

Part.1

wesende

bēonde

being

Past Indicative

1st p. sg

wæs

was

2nd p. sg

wǽre

3rd p. sg

wæs

was

PI

wǽron

were

Past Subjunctive

-

Sg

wǽre

were

Pl

wǽren

Part. II

-

been

Syntax

Ways of expressing syntactical relations: agreement, government, joining.

The sentence. The simple sentence. The main parts, the secondary parts. Word order. Multiple negation. Compound and complex sentences. Connectives.