12.17 Strong and Weak Verbs

  • As we get into each stem, there will be separate chapters devoted to strong and week verbs
  • Therefore, it will be useful for you to know what we mean by these terms
  • Each conjugation will have a basic paradigm that prescribes vowels, accents, preformatives, and sufformatives for each PGN
  • Strong verbs will follow this paradigm, so we will call this the “strong verb paradigm
  • To use terms familiar to those who may have studied other foreign languages, we might say that Strong Verbs are “regular,” and Weak Verbs are “irregular”