This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...considered by Adelung as irregular; although the distribution and order of the classes, in these authors, disagree a little from the arrangement here adopted: for instance, ic trede answers to the 1st in Adelung, ich gcbc, but to the 3d in Zahn, giba; ic lcete to the 2nd in Adelung, ich lasse; icgrafe to the 5th in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...considered by Adelung as irregular; although the distribution and order of the classes, in these authors, disagree a little from the arrangement here adopted: for instance, ic trede answers to the 1st in Adelung, ich gcbc, but to the 3d in Zahn, giba; ic lcete to the 2nd in Adelung, ich lasse; icgrafe to the 5th in Adelung, ich grabe, but to the 2d in Zahn, graba; ic binde is by Adelung comprehended under the 1st, as he has not considered it any essential difference that ich trete has a long a, (trdt), in the imp., but ich binde a short one, (bund): in Zahn, it is the 4th, bitida, as here; ic bite corresponds to the 3d in Adelung, ich greife, to the 1st in Zahn, greipa; ic bedde is the 4th in Adelung, ich biege, the 6th in Zahn, biuga. In the other Gothic dialects, where the same classes are more or less clearly distinguishable, other divisions have been proposed, but to arrange these words according to other characteristics, as the similarity of the vowel of the part. pass, and the imperfect, or the like, is to bring them into a very perverse order, whereby the most unlike enter into the same class. 195. We shall now proceed to give a synopsis of the chief tenses of the regular verbs. First Order. 1st Conjugation. Vres. Imp. Part. pass. 1st Class ic macige mac-ode macod 2nd---hy're hyrde hyred 3d---wyrce worhte (ge)worht. Second Order. 2nd Conjugation. 1st Class ic brece brtec brocen 2nd---liete let laeten 3d---fare for faren. 3i Conjugation. 1st Class ic finde i'ancl, 2 p. funde funden 2nd---drife draf--drife drifen 3d---becSde bad--bude boden. First Order. First Conjugation. 196. As paradigms of the three classes of this conjugation we shall take lufian to love, bacrnan to burn (were) and syllan to give, sell. Subjunctive Mode. Pres. Sing. 1. 2. 3. lufig...
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