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 Hīe geweorc geworhten hæfdon  ‘ they have built a fortress ’  bēōn, weorþan + a present participle.

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1  Hīe geweorc geworhten hæfdon  ‘ they have built a fortress ’  bēōn, weorþan + a present participle

2  Ring => Rang => Rung  i a u  Four stems: Infinitive, Past Singular, Past Plural, Participle II  7 classes  Class 7 - reduplicating verbs

3  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

4  Bītan bāt biton biten  ī - ā - i - I Class 7 H ea ldan heold heoldon h ea lden

5  No Ablaut  3 classes  3 stems  –d- or –t-  Class 1 Cēpan cēp t e cēpe d (keep)

6 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?

7 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?

8  What does the word “weak” and “strong” mean in such word combinations as “weak/strong nouns, verbs, adjectives”?

9  witan (to know),  cunnan (can),  þurfan (to need),  sculan (shall),  magan (may).

10  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

11  Singular  1st, 2nd and 3rd Persons wiste or wisse  Plural  1st, 2nd and 3rd Persons wiste or wisse

12  “willan”  “do” (dōn –dyde - gedōn) –  “live” (būan – būde - gebūn),  verbs with suppletive forms:  “go”(gān – ēode – gegān)  “be” (bēon and wesan )

13  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

14  Infinitive  beran – uninflected Inf. (Nom)  tō ber enne or tō ber anne - inflected infinitive (Dat)  he cymeth tō dēmenne cwicum and dēādum

15  hīe woldon hine forbærnan

16  – ende  ber ende

17  –en  –d/-t  ge-bunden  ā-drencen

18 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?

19  Norþan snywde (it snowed in the North)  Ne con īc nōht singan (I cannot sing nothing)

20  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.

21  Ða on morgenne gehierdon þæt þæs cyninges þegnas (VOS) Then in the morning the kings thegns heard that.

22  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.

23  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.

24  Þa : 1. “ when” or “then” 2. a plural demonstrative pronoun (those) 3. a singular feminine demonstrative pronoun in the accusative case

25  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 “

26  Define the morphological meanings of the nouns and adjectives.  þurh (through) þīne æþelan (noble) hand  þes ealda mann  blacum wulfum

27  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

28  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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