Маъсул муҳаррир: Филология фанлари доктори, профессор: Г. Х. Боқиева Тақризчилар

Preterite-present (past-present) verbs: their present tense corresponds to the past of strong verbs, while their past is derived according to the past of weak verbs: witan– wat (sing. pr.) – witon (pl. Present) – wisse/wiste (past). There are also some irregular verbs whose forms are derived from different roots, that is their system is based on suppletivity; e.g. wesan– to be, gan, don, willan etc. For example, the verb wesan (beon): 1 eom, beo 2. eart, bist 3 is, bith; Pl. sind(on) , beoth/ Past: waes, waere, waes, waeron.
Analytical formations: during the OE period the system of the verb acquires some analytical formations. For example, of the pattern ‘habban + second participle. Originally these formations meant that the subject owned a thing having a certain feature as a result of an action performed upon it. Then they acquired the meaning of result of an action. With intransitive verbs this formation has the verb ‘ beon, wesan (to be). Another type of analytical formations arises from the phrases ‘ sceal + infinitive’ and wille + infinitive’ The original model meaning of these verbs may be weakened and the phrase may approach the meaning of a future tense. One more type acquires a modal meaning’ sceolde + infinitive’ and ‘ wold + infinitive’ which could express supposition.
ME verb:
All types of verbs existing in OE were preserved in ME. In each of these types we can find changes due to phonetic phenomena of the ME period and changes due to analogy.
Strong verbs: In some classes, both the infinitive ending – an and the past plural ending –on were weakened to –en (n): (writen wrot writen writen); in others the past singular form began to penetrate into the past plural and the second participle to the past plural, thus preparing the reduction of the 4 main parts of a strong verb to three. Several classes of verbs influenced each other which resulted in different phonetic changes.
Weak verbs. The 3 classes of weak verbs had a different development in different dialects. The main changes were as follows: 1) verbs with an –i in the infinitive lost it: macian – maken (Northern/Midland dialects); the infinitive ending –ian/ien appears as – i:lufian – loven – lovi – Southern dialect; 2) in some weak verbs with a stem ending in –l, -n, -f, -v, the past suffix –d changed into – t; verbs with a stem in –rd, -nd, -ld formed their past in – rte, - nte, - lte, and their second particple in –rt, -nt, - t.