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regular verb

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  1. A verb that follows standard patterns in its inflection. The past tense of a regular verb is formed by adding an -ed ending: walk, walk ed; shout, shout ed. (Compare irregular verb.)


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Certain verbs with vowel stems, as τιμά-ω, φιλέ-ω, δηλό-ω, by contraction with initial vowels in the personal endings assume forms not found in the regular verb paradigms.

From A Greek Primer For Beginners in New Testament Greek by Stearns, Wallace

The auxiliaries ete, tede, elele, should be distinguished from the regular verb, tede or ta, to make.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood

It was a regular verb, unclebentley, unclebentleyed, unclebentleying.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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