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Rh 2) Compound forms:

3) Doubly compound forms:

209. In this manner are inflected almost all derivative verbs ending in a vowel or in a combination of consonants with which the ending -te does not readily agree.

In poetry verbs ending in a vowel often drop -e before the ending -de, and an apostrophe is written in its place, befri’de. In Norway verbs ending in a vowel colloquially form their imperf. in -dde and this form is now often used also in literature. naadde reached; trodde believed; etc. instead of naaede, troede.

In forms such as elskede the final -e is often dropped colloquially and in poetry: elsked’ for elskede. In Norway it takes the form elsket, a form that also is commencing to appear in the literature.

Verbs ending in -le and -re with a preceding consonant have their imperative of the same form as their infinitive: handle! act; logre, wag your tail! But imperative of such