Re: (In)transitive verbs

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> [T]echnically, most* irregular verbs are weak (ones like
> think/thought, set/set, do/did (at least, I think it's weak. It forms its
> past with an oral dental stop but it's pp. with an n...) etc.).
I was pretty surprised by this, but you're absolutely right: of 175
common irregular verbs, 101 are either weak or hybrids like "sleep/slept".

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