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28 :{|
 * - align="center"
 * colspan="2" | Imperf. Past Indic. || || Past Participle.
 * - align="center"
 * colspan="2" | Sing. and Plur.
 * || fik, || || fået.
 * || blev, || || bleven, blevet.
 * || skulde, || || skullet.
 * || vilde, || || villet.
 * || måtte, || || måttet.
 * || kunde, || || kunnet.
 * }
 * || vilde, || || villet.
 * || måtte, || || måttet.
 * || kunde, || || kunnet.
 * }
 * || kunde, || || kunnet.
 * }

(Regelrette Udsagnsord).

Regular Dano-Norwegian Verbs admit of being grouped under two heads, which are classified as weak modes of conjugation. These are: (1) Those which take ede in the imperfect past of the indicative, and et in the participle past; as, at elske, 'to love,' i. p. elskede, p. p. elsket. (2) Those which add te in the imperf. past of the indicative, and t in the p. past, directly to the root of the word; as, at stræbe, 'to strive,' i. p. stræbte, p. p. stræbt.

In both these forms, the three persons of the present tense of the indicative always end in r in the singular; as, jeg, du, han (or hun), and De, tröster, 'I, etc., console,' from at tröste, 'to console;' jeg, etc., spörger, 'I, etc., ask,' from at spörge, 'to ask.'

The following examples show the manner in which verbs belonging to these two forms are declined:—