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 The "general" stem is used for the present tense, present participle and imperative. The "past 1" stem is used for the past tense indicative singular, and the "past 2" is used for the dual and plural indicative past as well as the past optative past in all numbers.
-Analogical levelling with 2a verbs introduced umlaut into the Class 2b stem vowel (the long ''ū'' in Gothic would otherwise be expected to produce an invariant ''u'' vowel in Niemish). Furthermore, as palatalisation developed in Niemish, the palatalisation in the 2a general stem spread to all other stems, splitting subclasses 2a and 2b into full strong verb classes, sharing no forms. Some 2a verbs analogically extended the unpalatalised stems instead, causing them to join the 2b class instead.
+Analogical levelling with 2a verbs introduced umlaut into the Class 2b stem vowel (the long ''ū'' in Gothic would otherwise be expected to produce an invariant ''u'' vowel in Niemish).
+Furthermore, as palatalisation developed in Niemish, the palatalisation in the 2a general stem spread to all other stems, splitting subclasses 2a and 2b into full strong verb classes, sharing no forms. Some 2a verbs analogically extended the unpalatalised stems instead, causing them to join the 2b class.
 Class 2a verbs with stems affected by [[Niemish#Depalatalisation_of_labials_and_.2Fr.2F|depalatalisation]] (beginning with a labial, a rhotic or a labial+rhotic cluster) became 2b verbs.