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==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||
===Inversion=== | |||
A peculiar feature about Valthungian verbs is that every finite verb has a “Standard” and “Inverted” form. This arose historically because of the increasing strictness of the V2 environment, causing shifts in voicing and sandhi between the verb and subject pronoun. Inverted pronouns are generally appended to the inverted verb (with no apostrophes!), and the plural pronouns have particularly different forms which may merge some pronouns (the third person plural forms, for example, are all identical). | |||
===Strong Verbs=== | ===Strong Verbs=== | ||
Strong verbs are those verbs in Germanic which form the preterit and past participles through a process of ablaut; that is, by changing the stressed vowel. This is analogous to those verbs in English such as ''drive – drove – driven'' (class I), or ''drink – drank – drunk'' (class III). | |||
====Strong Verbs: Class I (ī – ǣ – i – i)==== | ====Strong Verbs: Class I (ī – ǣ – i – i)==== | ||
{{Template:Valthungian/v.st.1p|grī|grǣ|gri}} | {{Template:Valthungian/v.st.1p|grī|grǣ|gri}} | ||