irregular verb
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But other people’s mental grammars see “greenlight” as a form of the verb “to light”, an existing irregular verb with the past tense “lit”; hence “greenlit”.
From Economist • Sep. 22, 2016
Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb."
From Time Magazine Archive
Why pay so much attention to the lowly irregular verb?
From Time Magazine Archive
Do remember that aller is an irregular verb!
From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela
Part III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with the study of syntax and of subjunctive and irregular verb forms.
From Latin for Beginners by D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard)
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