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Hi, if you're new to learning languages, then please see A List of Common Linguistic Terms to learn what words like "accusative" and "strong verbs" mean. You should know that in Old English, verbs changed (we say that we "conjugate" verbs when we change them) a lot more than in Modern English. In Modern English, we usually add "-s" to third person singular verbs; that means that verbs used with words like "he", "she" or "it" add "-s", for example, we say "I sing" but "he sings". See? We added an "-s" to the end of the verb when we used it with "he", but we didn't when we used it with "I".

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rdfs:comment	Hi, if you're new to learning languages, then please see A List of Common Linguistic Terms to learn what words like "accusative" and "strong verbs" mean. You should know that in Old English, verbs changed (we say that we "conjugate" verbs when we change them) a lot more than in Modern English. In Modern English, we usually add "-s" to third person singular verbs; that means that verbs used with words like "he", "she" or "it" add "-s", for example, we say "I sing" but "he sings". See? We added an "-s" to the end of the verb when we used it with "he", but we didn't when we used it with "I".
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abstract	Hi, if you're new to learning languages, then please see A List of Common Linguistic Terms to learn what words like "accusative" and "strong verbs" mean. You should know that in Old English, verbs changed (we say that we "conjugate" verbs when we change them) a lot more than in Modern English. In Modern English, we usually add "-s" to third person singular verbs; that means that verbs used with words like "he", "she" or "it" add "-s", for example, we say "I sing" but "he sings". See? We added an "-s" to the end of the verb when we used it with "he", but we didn't when we used it with "I". Also, in Modern English, we often add "-ed" or "-d" to the end of verbs when we are talking about the past tense. That means things that have been done. For example, we say "I kick" (or maybe "I am kicking") when we are talking about the present tense (a thing that is happening now), but in the past tense, when we are talking about things that have been done, we say "I kicked". We add the "-ed" to the end of the verb to show that it happened in the past. In Old English, though, they also have suffixes (word endings) when they are talking about "I", "you", "they", and "we". And notice that some words in Modern English change the vowel to show that they happened in the past? For example we say "I sing" or "I am singing" for now, but when we want to talk about the past, we say "I sang". They also did this to some verbs in Old English. You should read the "Verb Classes" section of this page.

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