1. Dates of the OE Period: 450 AD - 1150AD

2. OE had two simple tenses: present and past.

3. There were __________ and _____________ conjugations of OE verbs. What does this mean?

4. What trait characterizes OE verbs as Germanic?

It has no single agreed system of spelling and has heavy use of inflections.

 

5. What distinguishes OE strong verbs from weak verbs?

OE strong verbs?

Strong verbs form the past tense by changing a vowel, while weak verbs add an ending.

 

6. What specific morphological feature of verbs mark them as typical of OE (in contrast of other Germanic languages)?

Has 3 genders which are male, femle and neuter and noun and adjectives paradigms contains 4 cases which are Nominative, genitive, dative and accusative. 

2. OE had two simple tenses: Present tense and past tense.

3. There were weak and strong conjugations of OE verbs. 
- This is mean OE verbs were grouped in two major groups: weak verbs and strong verbs. A third group contains some verbs not belonging to either of those groups.

4. Traits characterizes OE verbs as Germanic : 
- Has no single agreed system of spelling.
- Heavy use of inflection

 

5. Distinguishes OE strong verb from weak verb:

- The Weak is a regular verb that requires ‘ed’ at the end 

Example: Weak verb – Walk, Walked, Walked 

- The Strong verb is an Irregular verb
 Example: Sing, Sang,Sung

 

6. Specific morphological feature of verbs mark as typical OE (In contrast of other Germanic languages):

- Old English is not dependent upon consideration of sex

- It has three genders: Masculine, Feminine and Neuter

- Noun and adjective paradigms contained FOUR cases: 

- Nominative 

- Genitive 

- Dative 

-Accusative 

- Pronouns had forms for the instrumental case.

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ANSWER:

1) Dates of the OE Period: 450 A.D – 1150 A.D.

2) OE had two simple tenses: present tense and preterit (past) tense.

3) There were strong and weak conjugations of OE verbs.

What does this mean?

It is mean that OE use these two major groups determine the ones which used the ancient Germanic type of conjugation (the Ablaut), and the ones which just added endings to their past and participle forms.

4) what trait characterizes OE verbs as Germanic?

- has no single agreed system of spelling

- heavy use of inflection

-Muscular quality to the words such as short, direct and forceful

-flexible word order due inflections

5) what distinguishes OE strong verbs from weak verbs?

Strong verb is the denominative for string verb were that there was a vowel shift called “ablaut” in the root of the verb. Due to different vowels shifts, has 4 form and seven vowels. While weak verbs form the majority of old English verbs and divided in three classes only according to the ending in the preterit.

6) What specific morphological features of verbs mark them as typical of OE in contrast to other Germanic languages?

- has three genders which is masculine, feminine and neuter.

- paradigms 4 cases (noun and adjective): Nominative (subject), genitive (possessive), dative (indirect object), and accusative (direct object).

-Pronoun had forms for the instrumental case

1.     Dates of the OE Period: 

-          450AD – 1150AD

 

2.     OE had two simple tenses: 

-          Present tense

-          Past tense

 

3.     There were _____ and _____ conjugations of OE verbs. What does this mean?

Old English verbs were grouped in two major groups which are weak verbs and strong verbs. Weak verbs are divided in 3 classes and strong verbs are divided into 6 categories. 

 

4.     What trait characteristics OE verbs as Germanic?

-          Heavy use of inflection

-          Has grammatical genders

-          Has no single agreed system of spelling

 

5.     What distinguishes OE strong verbs from weak verbs?

Strong verbs change their vowel in different tenses (run/ran), while weak verbs use inflectional endings for the same point (love/loved).

 

6.     What specific morphological feature of verbs mark them as typical of OE (in contrast to other Germanic language?

Old English is an inflected language. It has 3 genders which are masculine, feminine and neuter. It contains 4 cases which are nominative, accusative, genitive and dative.

2. OE had two simple tenses : present and preterit (past)

3. There were weak and strong conjugations of OE verbs. 

Weak verbs : Commonly called regular verbs and form the past tense by adding -ed, -d, or -t to the base form, or present tense of the verb, such as call, called and walk, walked.

Strong verbs : Usually called irregular verbs, form the past tense or the past participle (or both) in various ways but most often by changing the vowel of the present tense form, such as to give, gave and stick, stuck.

4. Traits characterizes old English verbs as Germanic were heavy use of inflections, has no single agree system and consist of grammatical gender. 

5. The weak verbs are simply verbs whose past tense is formed by adding -ed or -t to the end. For example, walk becomes walked, leap becomes leapt, rank becomes ranked while the strong verbs do have a change in the stem vowel of the original verb. There is a significant change as the past tense and past participle are formed out of the original verb. For example, sing becomes sang, teach becomes taught, come becomes came

6.  specific morphological features of verbs that mark them as typical of Old English :
- 3 genders ( masculine, feminine and neuter
- noun and adjective paradigms contained four cases ( nominative, genitive, dative and accusative)
- pronouns had forms for the instrumental case.

-       450 AD – 1150 AD.

 

2.    OE had two simple tenses:

-       Present tense and past tense (Preterite).

 

3.    There were ……. And ……. Conjugation of OE verbs. What does this mean?

-       Strong and weak.

-       This is means OE verbs were grouped in two major groups, weak verbs and strong verbs. A third group contains some verbs not belonging to neither of those groups.

 

4.    What trait characterizes OE verbs as Germanic?

-       It has no single agreed system of spelling; grammatical gender in nouns and adjective; flexible word order due inflections.

 

5.    What distinguishes OE strong verbs from weak verbs?

-       Weak verbs are more predictable. They form their preterite tense by adding ‘-de’ in the singular and ‘–don’ in the plural. This is the root of the common English past tense suffix ‘-ed’.

-       Strong verbs usually called irregular verbs form the past tense or the past participle or both in various ways but most often by changing the vowel of the present tense form, such as to give, gave and stick, stuck.

 

6.    What specific morphological feature of verbs mark them as typical of OE (in contrast to other Germanic languages?

-       Old English morphology was that of a typical inflected that have features of verbs such as three genders which are masculine, feminine and neuter; contains four cases which are nominative, accusative, genitive, dative; two adjective declensions, a strong and a weak.

 

2. OE has two simple tenses which are Present tense and past (preterite) tense

3. There were strong and weak conjugations of OE verbs. It means that Old English used strong verbs compared to modern English and the strong verbs that were used during the old English is considered weak or regular used verbs in modern English. 

4. OE Verbs Characteristic traits:

- Has weak past tenses

- No single, agreed system of spelling

- Heavy use of inflections

- Muscular quality to the words

-Contains grammatical genders

5. The difference between weak verb and strong verb is how a past tense is formed. Weak verbs contains words that ends a verb such as –ed, -d, or t. However, Strong verb only go through the change of vowel without adding the –ed,d or t. 

6.       Morphological feature of verbs:

-Contains three specific genders which are masculine, feminine and neuter

-Noun and adjectives paradigms contains 4 cases :

(A) Nominative (subject)

(B)Genitive (possessive ‘s)

(C)Dative (indirect object)

(D)Accusative (direct object)

- Pronouns had forms for the instrumental case

-Had strong verbs than modern English 

-       450 A.D – 1150 A.D

 

2.    OE had two simple tenses

-       Past tense

-       Present tense

 

3.    There were strong and weak conjugations of OE verbs. What does this means?

-       For strong verbs, it means the change of the stem vowel in order to form past tense or past participle, for example the word of to bring so for the past tense/participle is brought

-       For weak verbs, it means the addition of a “-d” or a “-t” ending to the past tense or past participle, for example the word of to love so for the past tense/participle is loved

 

4.    What trait characterizes OE verbs as Germanic?

-       The substitution of natural gender for grammatical gender

-       The lost of the old system of declensions in the noun and adjective, largely in the pronoun

 

5.    What distinguishes OE strong verbs from weak verbs?

-       Strong verbs doesn’t need to add “-d” or “-t” at the end of that verb when it comes to past tense/participle while for weak verbs it needs to add “-d” or “-t”

 

6.    What specific morphological feature of verbs mark them as typical of OE in contrast to other Germanic languages?

-       Noun and adjective paradigms contained four cases which are nominative, genitive, dative and accusative

-       They had three genders which are masculine, feminine and neuter 

2.Old English had two simple tenses : past and present tense.

3.There were strong  and weak conjugations of Old English. It means that Old English tend to use strong verb than modern English does.

4.The traits that characterizes old English verbs as Germanic is that it does not has single agree system and there is grammatical gender in nouns and adjectives.

5.Strong and weak verb in old English can be distinguished with the fact that strong verb form past tense by changing the vowel while weak verb form past tense by adding suffixes at the end of the words.

6.Specific morphological features of verb mark them as typical of old English in contrast to other Germanic language: 

- the genders which are masculine, feminine and neuter.
- The paradigms has 4 cases (noun and adjective) which are Nominative (subject), genitive(possessive), dative (indirect object) and also accusative (direct object).
-Pronoun has forms for the instrumental case.