Note1.—The -ie (-ien) occurring in the present must be pronounced as a dissyllable. The y-sound thus interposed between the i and e is frequently indicated by the letter g: lufie, or lufige; lufien, or lufigen. So also for ia: lufiað, or lufigað; lufian, or lufig(e)an.
Note 2.—In the preterit singular, -ade, -ude, and -ede are not infrequent for -ode.
Class III.
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The few verbs belonging here show a blending of Classes I and II. Like certain verbs of Class I ([§ 128]), the preterit and past participle are formed by adding -de and -d; like Class II, the 2d and 3d present indicative singular end in -ast and -að, the imperative 2d singular in -a:
| habb-an, | hæf-de, | gehæf-d, | to have. |
| libb-an, | lif-de, | gelif-d, | to live. |
| sęcg-an, | sǣd-e (sæg-de), | gesǣd (gesæg-d), | to say. |
Conjugation of Class III.
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Paradigms of habban, to have; libban, to live; sęcgan, to say.
