We do this to English words with the German past-tense prefix ge-. Today have I already gebreaded (German grammar optional). For bagotten it sounds more like an irregular one using be-, like benutzt.
@Chris Packham @Rebeca To fit is. I think it’s actually two: one irregular - to fit (inside something) and to fit (a person for clothes) which is regular.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •also because verbing nouns is fun, you will often hear in our household exchanges like:
"Shall I buy a baguette?" "no, I have already baguotten today"
(or "I'm making spaghetti", "great choice, we haven't spaghotten for ages!")
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Can you also make ‘beard’ rhyme with ‘heard’?
I don’t care which way round; it’s enough that my kids will be annoyed that I’m actually pronouncing them right.
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in reply to Chris Pack-o-lantern • • •That's not actually irregular, it conforms to a clear pattern: Sit, sat. Drink, drank. Fit, fat.
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in reply to Rebeca • •@Rebeca @Chris Packham It is irregular. A regular verb in English has the following form:
Infinitive: (To) X
3rd person singular present indicative: Xs (or other standard plurals)
Gerund: Xing
Participle/preterit: Xed
And that’s it. There are some patterns of irregular verbs, but regular ones all have stem+ed as their past tense.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •So would the pluperfect be ‘quot’?
Yikes! I haven’t used the term ‘pluperfect’ since I was fourteen.