Strong verbs form preterites by ablaut (the alternating of vowels in their root forms) or by reduplication (prefixing the root with the first consonant in the root plus aí) but without adding a suffix in either case.
Preterite: IS-ending A preterite verb,a verb with the IS-ending shows an action or state that is real but which already occurred at the moment of speaking.
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The Gothic word wáit, from the proto-Indo-European *woid-h2e ("to see" in the perfect), corresponds exactly to its Sanskrit cognate véda and in Greek to Both etymologically should mean "I have seen" (in the perfect sense) but mean "I know" (in the preterite-present meaning).
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Instruct students to make a cell for each category, label it, and provide a sentence below the image using either the preterite, the imperfect, or both, correctly.
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The reflexive stem is formed with an infix -ta, and the derived stems are therefore called Gt, Dt, Št and Nt, and the preterite forms of the Xt-stem are identical to the perfects of the X-stem.
Strong verbs form preterites by ablaut (the alternating of vowels in their root forms) or by reduplication (prefixing the root with the first consonant in the root plus aí) but without adding a suffix in either case.
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First the narrator uses the preterite to indicate past time, but later changes to the present tense so that the listener or reader should feel as if he himself is present and can hear the shot.
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