Dalecarlian verbs

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The verb tells, what is being done, or what's going on:

Krippen spilær, ('The child plays')
Pojken stóð þar, ('The boy stood there')
Bljommin veksir, ('The flower grows')

They are different from other word classes by the fact,

that they can be conjugated in tenses: present, past, etc.

The verb til spilå [tI spI'l^\O] ('to play') is:

in present: spilær
in past: spilæð

Verbs can be classified in moods and passives, they are conjugated in tenses, numbers and persons, and they can be classified as verbs with soundchanges and verbs without soundchanges. They also use weak and strong conjugations.<p>

• Dalecarlian verb moods
  
• Dalecarlian verb tenses
  
• Dalecarlian verb passives
  
• Dalecarlian verbs with soundchanges
  
• Dalecarlian verbs without soundchanges
  
• Dalecarlian irregular verbs
  
• Dalecarlian verbs: strong and weak conjugation<p>

Verbs are, as mentioned above conjugated in persons and numbers. There are three persons: 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd person. There are two numbers singular and plural. <p>

Examples:<p>

til skreifa ('to write')

Sing.	Pres.	Past
1st pers.	ig skreifir	ig skreifði
2nd pers.	þu skreifir	þu skreifði
3rd pers. (m)	han skreifir	han skreifði
3rd pers. (f)	hoñ skreifir	hoñ skreifði
3rd pers. (n)	heð skreifir	heð skreifði
Plur.
1st pers.	vįð skreifum	vįð skreifðum
2nd pers.	ið skreifið	ið skreifðið
3rd pers.	þeir skreifa	þeir skreifði

til leså ('to read')

Sing.	Pres.	Past
1st pers.	ig les	ig las
2nd pers.	þu les	þu las
3rd pers. (m)	han les	han las
3rd pers. (f)	hoñ les	hoñ las
3rd pers. (n)	heð les	heð las
Plur.
1st pers.	vįð lesum	vįð lasum
2nd pers.	ið lesið	ið lasið
3rd pers.	þeir leså	þeir lasu

When conjugating verbs in general, we use:

til + infinitive -
ig + 1^st person present singular -
ig + 1^st person past singular -
vįð + 1^st person past plural -
ig hafr + past participle

til skreifa - ig skreifir - ig skreifði - vįð skreifðum - ig hafr skreift
til leså - ig les - ig las - vįð lasu - ig hafr lesið <p> ('to write - I write - I wrote - we wrote - I have written
to read - I read - I read - we read - I have read', respectively)

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