Jump to content

Category:English verbs with weak preterite but strong past participle

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

These verbs have a "weak" preterite, but may have a "strong" past (or passive) participle ending in "-en".

The verbs "do" and "go" were of this type even in Old English and Proto-Germanic. The others are either originally weak verbs that have acquired an optional strong past participle, or originally strong verbs that have acquired a weak preterite.

The verb "go" is suppletive, meaning that a different root is used for the preterite.

The verb "hide" used to be weak; hide, hid, hid, but now one usually says "hidden" instead of "hid" for the participle.

Pages in category "English verbs with weak preterite but strong past participle"

The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.

D

G

H

L

M

P

S

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English_verbs_with_weak_preterite_but_strong_past_participle&oldid=61782023"