PRETERITE TENSE.

Singular.

(I) carf, ran, smot, stod.

(Thou) carve, ranne, smote, stode.

(He) carf, ran, smot, stod.

Very frequently the _e_ in the second person is dropped,[65] as in the

Northumbrian dialect, but we never meet with such forms as carves

(= carvedest), rannes (= ranst), smotes (= smotest), etc.

Plural.

(We) corven, runnen, smiten, stonden.

(Ȝe) „ „ „ „

(Thay) „ „ „ „

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