Faroese verbs

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The verb tells what is being done or what is going on:

Barnið spælir = The child plays
Drongurin stóð har = The boy stood there
Blómar veksur = The flower grows

They are different from other word classes by the fact that they can be declined/conjugated in tenses: present, past, etc.

The verb at spæla (to play) is:

in present: spælir
in past: spældi

Verbs can be classified in moods and passives, they are conjugated in tenses, numbers and persons, they are transitive or intranstive and can be classified as verbs with sound changes and verbs without sound changes. They also use weak and strong conjugations.

• Faroese verb moods
• Faroese verb tenses
• Faroese verbs: transitive and intransitive
• Faroese verb passives
• Faroese verbs with soundchanges
• Faroese verbs without soundchanges
• Faroese irregular verbs
• Faroese verbs: strong and weak conjugation

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

Examples:

<tr><th>1st pers.</th><td>vit skriva</td><td>vit skrivaðu</td></tr> <tr><th>2nd pers.</th><td>tit skriva</td><td>tit skrivaðu</td></tr> <tr><th>3rd pers.</th><td>tey skriva</td><td>tey skrivaðu</td></tr> </table>

Singular	Pres.	Past
1st pers.	eg skrivi	eg skrivaði
2nd pers.	tú skrivar	tú skrivaði
3rd pers.	hann skrivar	hann skrivaði
-----	hon skrivar	hon skrivaði
-----	tað skrivar	tað skrivaði
Plural</td>

<tr><th>1st pers.</th><td>vit lesa</td><td>vit lósu</td></tr> <tr><th>2nd pers.</th><td>tit lesa</td><td>tit lósu</td></tr> <tr><th>3rd pers.</th><td>tey lesa</td><td>tit lósu</td></tr> </table>

When conjugating verbs in general, we use:

Infinitive
3rd pers. pres. singular
3rd pers. past singular
3rd pers. past plural
Past participle

at skriva - hann skrivar - hann skrivaði - teir skrivaðu - teir hava skrivað
at lesa - hann lesur - hann las - teir lósu - teir hava lisið

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Singular	Pres.	Past
1st pers.	eg lesi	eg las
2nd pers.	tú lesur	tú last/tú las
3rd pers.	hann lesur	hann las
-----	hon lesur	hon las
-----	tað lesur	tað las
Plural</td>