Old Dutch
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- Language: Old Dutch
- Alternate names: Old Dutch
- SIL-code: -
- Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Old Dutch is a linguistic term denoting the forms of West Franconian spoken and written during the early Middle Ages (c. 500 - 1150) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium. Old Dutch is considered the first stage in the development of a separate Dutch language and is succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages.
The Old Dutch verb
- 3 moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, and Imperative
- 2 tenses: Present and Past
- 2 numbers: Singular and Plural
- 3 persons
Sample verb: scawon
- Present participle: scawant
- Past participle: gescawot
| INDICATIVE | SUBJUNCTIVE | IMPERATIVE | |||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | ||
| Sg.1 | scawon | scawoda | scawe | scawode | - |
| Sg.2 | scawos | scawodos | scawes | scawodes | scawo! |
| Sg.3 | scawot | scawoda | scawe | scawode | - |
| Pl.1 | scawon | scawodon | scawen | scawoden | - |
| Pl.2 | scawot | scawodet | scawet | scawodet | scawot |
| Pl.3 | scawont | scawodon | scawen | scawoden | - |
Click verbs to conjugate them in the table above!
References
- A. Quak & J. M. van der Horst. Inleiding Oudnederlands.
Universitaire Pers Leuven . Leuven. 2002.
- Robinson, Orrin W.. Old English and its closest relatives.
Stanford University Press. Standford. 1992.