Dalecarlian verbs: strong and weak conjugation

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Verbs are conjugated weakly or strongly:

Strongly conjugated verbs have no ending in singular past:

til bíta - han beit (= to bite - he bit),
til kumå - han kam (= to come - he came)

All strongly conjugated verbs have soundchanges. <p> Weakly conjugated verbs have one of the the singular past endings -di, -ti, -ði, -eð or -æð:

til bíða - han bíddi (= to wait - he waited),
til kýta - han kýtti (= to run - he ran),
til gjarå - han garði (= to do - he did),
til slátra - han slátreð (to slaughter - he slaughtered),
til tålå - han tælæð (= to speak - he spoke)

Most of the weakly conjugated verbs have no soundchange.





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