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 |fam3              = [[w:East Germanic languages|East Germanic]]
 |fam4              = [[w:Gothic language|Gothic]]
-|creator           = User:eli
+|creator           = User:Mangohouse
 |script1           = Latn
 |nation            = Rommerg
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 ==== Verb classes ====
+Mergian retained almost all of the verb classes from Gothic. There is still a strong and weak verb system, but the strong verbs have been simplified slightly.
+A strong verb is a verb whose final vowel changes to indicate a change from the present stem to the past stem. A weak verb is a verb which does not exhibit any stem change and instead changes tense purely through suffixes.
+The strong verb vowel scheme is shown here:
+{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
+|+ Strong verb vowel changes
+|-
+! Class !! Present stem vowel !! Past stem vowel !! Example
+|-
+| I
+| i
+| e
+| ''biða'' 'I wait', ''beþ'' 'I waited'
+|-
+| II
+| u, uu
+| o
+| ''njuda'' 'I love', ''njod'' 'I loved' <br/> ''luuga'' 'I lock', ''log'' 'I locked'
+|-
+| III
+| i
+| a
+| ''nima'' 'I take', ''nam'' 'I took'
+|-
+| IV
+| e, ei
+| a
+| ''fravera'' 'I endure', ''fravar'' 'I endured' <br/> ''sea'' 'I see', ''saah'' 'I saw'
+|-
+| V
+| u
+| a
+| ''truða'' 'I tread', ''trað'' 'I treaded'
+|-
+| VI
+| e
+| ou
+| ''skebha'' 'I shave', ''skouf'' 'I shaved' <!--cons+h is silent-->
+|}
 ==== Conjugation ====