German Irregular Verbs by Vowel Change
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Re: German Irregular Verbs by Vowel Change
For your bonus point, identify the Germanic class (I-VII) for each verb
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Re: German Irregular Verbs by Vowel Change
Why is 'pflegen' on the list? It's regular...
Re: German Irregular Verbs by Vowel Change
Maybe because it was strong historically: phlegen, phligest, phlac, gephlegen/gephlogen?Anders wrote:Why is 'pflegen' on the list? It's regular...
Re: German Irregular Verbs by Vowel Change
There's also the derived noun Gepflogenheit 'habit, custom', which is still used today in certain contexts (even if somewhat old-fashioned).Jipí wrote:Maybe because it was strong historically: phlegen, phligest, phlac, gephlegen/gephlogen?Anders wrote:Why is 'pflegen' on the list? It's regular...
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Re: German Irregular Verbs by Vowel Change
Because I took this list of verbs from a couple dictionaries, but on of them, a German-French dictionary by Larousse, had a bunch of perfectly regular verbs in the list (for some weird reason) and somehow I forgot to take this one out.Anders wrote:Why is 'pflegen' on the list? It's regular...
But hey, Duden at least says that in the phrase der Ruhe pflegen 'to keep peace'(?) the verb is conjugated pflegen pflegt pflog gepflogen...