Weak Verbs

3. these are those that use a dental suffix in the past or "preterite" tense, either -t- or -d-.
4. in this language there were five main classes of weak verbs: • Class I verbs were formed with a suffix -j- (-i- in the past), e.g. Gothic satjan "to set" (Old English settan), sandjan "to send" (Old English sendan), sōkjan "to seek" (Old English sēcan)
5. it descends from Dutch,and in it the past tense has fallen out of use altogether, and the past participle is marked only with the prefix ge-.
7. the situation of this language was similar to Icelandic, but intervocalic /ð/ eventually disappeared.
8. in this language the dental is always /t/ and always spelled ⟨t⟩ because of the third phase of the High … consonant shift (d→t).
9. in this language the dental was originally a voiced dental fricative /ð/. It is preserved as such after vowels, voiced fricatives and /r/ but has been hardened to a stop /d/ after nasals and /l/, and has been devoiced to /t/ after voiceless consonants and in some other cases (in most Old Norse texts, the alternation is already found in heavy roots, but the light ones preserve /ð/).

1. verbs are a class of verbs which have a present tense in the form of a strong preterite and a past tense like the past of a weak verb.
2. In the Germanic languages weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, are therefore often regarded as…
6. these languages developed further tenses periphrastically, that is, using auxiliary verbs, but the constituent parts of even the most elaborate periphrastic constructions are still only in either present or preterite tenses (or non finite-forms: cf I would have been doing, an English conditional perfect progressive with would in the preterite, the other three parts being non-finite).