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Hīe geweorc geworhten hæfdon ‘ they have built a fortress ’ bēōn, weorþan + a present participle
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Ring => Rang => Rung i a u Four stems: Infinitive, Past Singular, Past Plural, Participle II 7 classes Class 7 - reduplicating verbs
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Class I: bite = bitan Class II: fly = flēon Class III: spring = springan Class IV: come = cuman Class V: give = giefan Class VI: take = tacan Class VII: hold = healdan
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Bītan bāt biton biten ī - ā - i - I Class 7 H ea ldan heold heoldon h ea lden
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No Ablaut 3 classes 3 stems –d- or –t- Class 1 Cēpan cēp t e cēpe d (keep)
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Variant 1 1. What were the grammatical categories of OE adjectives? Variant 2 1. In which case was an adjective declined strong? Variant 3 1. In which case was an adjective declined weak?
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Variant 1 2. How many stems did the OE strong verbs have? (give a list) Variant 2 2. Which was the regular way of forming the degrees of comparison? Variant 3 2. How many classes of weak verbs were distinguished in OE?
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What does the word “weak” and “strong” mean in such word combinations as “weak/strong nouns, verbs, adjectives”?
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witan (to know), cunnan (can), þurfan (to need), sculan (shall), magan (may).
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Singular 1 st Person wat 2 nd Person wast 3 rd Person wat Plural All Persons witon Srtong verb class 3 findan fand fundon funden
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Singular 1st, 2nd and 3rd Persons wiste or wisse Plural 1st, 2nd and 3rd Persons wiste or wisse
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“willan” “do” (dōn –dyde - gedōn) – “live” (būan – būde - gebūn), verbs with suppletive forms: “go”(gān – ēode – gegān) “be” (bēon and wesan )
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Present Present Past 1 st P Sg (I) eom beo wæs 2 nd P Sg (you) eart bist wære 3 rd P Sg is bið wæs (he, she, it) All Plurals sind / sindon beoð wæron
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Infinitive beran – uninflected Inf. (Nom) tō ber enne or tō ber anne - inflected infinitive (Dat) he cymeth tō dēmenne cwicum and dēādum
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hīe woldon hine forbærnan
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– ende ber ende
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–en –d/-t ge-bunden ā-drencen
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Variant 1 1) How did the present-preterite verbs build their forms? 2) How were the two participles built in OE? Variant 2 1) The present-preterite verbs correspond to ___________ verbs in Modern English. 2) What are the two forms of the infinitive in OE? How were they built?
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Norþan snywde (it snowed in the North) Ne con īc nōht singan (I cannot sing nothing)
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se guma geseah þa cwēn S-V-O (the man saw the woman) þa cwēn geseah se guma O-V-S þa geascode he þone cyning (VSO) Then he discovered the king.
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Ða on morgenne gehierdon þæt þæs cyninges þegnas (VOS) Then in the morning the kings thegns heard that.
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God cwæþ him þus to God said thus to him Hie... þone æþeling ofslogon, ond þa men þe him mid wæron. They... killed the prince and the men who were with him.
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conjunction “þæt” and particle “þe” (“which," "that," "who" or "whom). þæs cyninges þegnas þe him be-hindan wæron The king's thanes who were behind him.
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Þa : 1. “ when” or “then” 2. a plural demonstrative pronoun (those) 3. a singular feminine demonstrative pronoun in the accusative case
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for þam þe – because swa swa - “so so” or “as as,” or “just as” or “such as.” swylce - “such,” but it very often can be translated at “likewise “
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Define the morphological meanings of the nouns and adjectives. þurh (through) þīne æþelan (noble) hand þes ealda mann blacum wulfum
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dæӡ a-stem, masc, fuӡol a-stem, masc hēah high (accusative, masc - hēanne) a ӡen own l īf a-stem, neuter folca-stem, neuter Eal all wer a-stem, masc b ēam tree
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dur u-stem, feminine bur ӡroot stem, feminine r īcea-stem, neuter elc (ælc)each What happened with the unstressed vowel in oblique cases? How were neuter a-stems different from masculine a-stems? Which nouns belonged to weak declension?
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