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 The "general" stem is used for the present tense, present participle and imperative. The "past" stem is used for the past tense, other than in the past participle which has its own stem.
-Class 1 and class 7b (see later for why 7a is not under discussion) verbs with stems affected by [[Niemish#Depalatalisation_of_labials_and_.2Fr.2F|depalatalisation]] (beginning with a labial, a rhotic or a labial+rhotic cluster) had the present stem vowel changed from ''i'' to ''y''. Class 1 verbs also had the past stem vowel changed from ''ia, iä'' to ''a, ä''.
+Class 1 and class 7b verbs with stems affected by [[Niemish#Depalatalisation_of_labials_and_.2Fr.2F|depalatalisation]] (beginning with a labial, a rhotic or a labial+rhotic cluster) had the present stem vowel changed from ''i'' to ''y''. Class 1 verbs also had the past stem vowel changed from ''ia, iä'' to ''a, ä''. The new subclasses of class 1 are named 1a and 1b by analogy with the other subclasses; while they are named 7ba and 7bb for class 7b, as they arise only from Gothic 7b verbs (7a verbs having been lost).
 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).