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noun
One of a class of verbs which use a dental suffix appended to the stem to indicate the past tense.
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noun
One of a class of verbs which use a dental suffix appended to the stem to indicate the past tense.
A regular verb of this class (thus excluding verbs that do have a dental suffix, but show some formal peculiarity, as in tell > told).
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noun
A member of a verb class that is customarily called “weak”, and usually distinguished from another class called “strong”.
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noun
A member of a verb class that is customarily called “weak”, and usually distinguished from another class called “strong”.
A verb formed from a root that includes a semivowel or another consonant prone to elision (so-called “weak roots”).
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History
Calque of German schwaches Verb (19th c.). Jacob Grimm called “weak” those classes of conjugation and declension which had lost more distinctions between forms or grammatical categories. The later use of Semitic is a semantic loan from Arabic فِعْل مُعْتَلّ (fiʕl muʕtall).
Across languages
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