regular 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 Wallace Stearns
The following is a complete paradigm of a regular verb, showing the various forms.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
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 Goold Brown
But strew, I incline to think, is properly a regular verb only, though Wells and Worcester give it otherwise: if strewn has ever been proper, it seems now to be obsolete.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
All the other forms follow the inflection of the regular verb.
From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
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