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Let's turn regular. Cool! But wait...regular past isn't that
regular. We actually encounter three different regular suffixes. First of all,
the (regular) verbs that end in a vowel different than e take the suffix
-dde in the past tense; in our temporary list from the previous page, we only find two:
| to live |
å bo |
bor |
bodde |
| to have |
å ha |
har |
hadde |
Next group of regular verbs are those that take the suffix
-et (optionally -a, but we'll work only with -et
here). All these already end with an -e in infinitive, so in
practice you just need
to add -t. Let's say for now that this is the case for verbs that
have a k (although the issue is a bit more complicated) just
before the last e in the infinitive form:
| to speak / talk |
å snakke |
snakker |
snakket |
| to love |
å elske |
elsker |
elsket |
So there's one regular group left... |
