What are those special class verbs that change spelling with tense?

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stound

@pagandad I did know the oldest English connection. Same for weird plurals... hooves, etc.

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jomsim · 26-30, M

The spelling nearly always changes with tense. Do you mean ones that change in non-standard ways like swim, swam, swum?

stound

@jomsim well change as in their vowels, not just adding ed. Yes, those would be examples

jomsim · 26-30, M

@stound I'd know them as irregular verbs. I think a few others agree with that too.

stound

@jomsim seems to be the consensus

Fungirlmmm · 51-55, F

We were taught in the southern part of USA that these are called 'irregular verbs'...

Examples... become/became/become... begin/began/begun... burn/burned/burnt. Etc etc etc

SW-User

am, is , are, was, were, state of being verbs

stound

@SW-User but also things like swin and run.

SW-User

@stound Yes, those are irregular. "Swim" and "run" have ablauting forms (i.e. the vowel changes) and verbs like "is/were/been" and "go/went" are suppletive, meaning that they have entirely different roots for different tenses.

SW-User

Irregular?

stound

@SW-User hmmm

tenente · 100+, M

look at these mindmen solving worldly problems 🤔

stound

@tenente sorry, there'll be peeing and diapers back soon enough.

sspec

@tenente 🙂

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