4. Infin. _beren_; Pt. s. _bar_ (also _ber_, _beer_); Pt. pl. _b[=e]ren_; Pp. _boren_, _bore_, _born_. Confused in M.E. with conj. 5. So also: _breken_ or _breke_, _shere_, _speke_, _stele_, _tere_ (cf. pt. s. _to-tar_), _trede_, _wreke_. Here belongs pt. s. _nam_, pp. _nomen_, as if from an infin. _nemen_, which became _nimen_. Also _come_, pt. s. _cam_ (also _coom_), pt. pl. _camen_ (also _c[=o]men_), pp. _comen_ (kum.[*e]n). 5. Infin. _yeven_, _yeve_, and frequently _yive_; Pt. s. _yaf_; Pt. pl. _yaven_ (more correctly _y[=e]ven_); Pp. _yeven_, and frequently _yiven_. Here belong _eten_ or _ete_ (pt. s. _eet_, pp. _eten_), _forgete_, _gete_, _mete_, to mete, _steke_ (pt. s. _stak_), _weve_ (pt. s. _waf_, pp. _woven_); also _bidde_, _sitte_ (pt. s. _sat_, _seet_, pt. pl. _s[=e]ten_), _ligge_ or _lye_ (pt. s. _lay_, pt. pl. _layen_). Here belongs _quethen_, to say, which only appears in the pt. s. _quoth_ or _quod_. Also _seen_, to see, pp. _y-seyn_, _y-seye_, with various forms of the pt. s., as _seigh_, _sey_, _say_, _sy_, _saugh_, _saw_. The verbs _speke_, _trede_, _wreke_, have gone over to conj. 4; and the same might be said of _weve_. 6. Infin. _shaken_; Pt. t. _sh['o]['o]k_; Pt. pl. _shooken_; Pp. _shaken_, _shake_. So also: _awake_ (pt. s. also _awaked_), _bake_, _drawe_ (pt. s. _drow_), _fare_, _forsake_, _gnawe_ (pt. s. _gnow_), _grave_, _laughe_ (pt. s. _lough_), _shape_, _shave_, _stande_ (pt. s. _stood_, pp. _stonden_), _stapen_ (pp. _stapen_ in MS. E., which is more correct than _stopen_ in other MSS.), _take_, _wake_, _wasshe_ (pt. s. _wessh_, _wissh_), _waxe_ (pt. s. _wex_, pp. _woxen_ instead of _waxen_). Here also belong _heve_ (pt. s. _heef_, _haf_); _sleen_ or _slee_, slay (pt. s. _slow_, _slough_, pp. _slawe_, _slayn_); _swere_ (pt. s. _swoor_, pp. _sworen_, _sworn_). Also _quake_, originally a weak verb, of which Chaucer has the pt. s. _qu['o]['o]k_. Conversely, the pt. s. of _fare_ is weak, viz. _ferde_. 7. Infin. _fallen_; Pt. s. _fel_ (also _fil_); Pt. pl. _fellen_ (also _fillen_); Pp. _fallen_. This conjugation originally made the pt. t. by duplication, and the root-vowel varies. But the vowel of the pp. agrees with that of the infinitive, and the vowel of the pt. t. is the same in the singular and plural. Here belong _biholde_, pt. s. _bih[=e]ld_; _holde_, pt. s. _heeld_; _honge_, _hange_, pt. s. _heeng_, _heng_; _bete_, pt. s. _beet_; _hewe_; _lete_, _late_, pt. s. _leet_, pp. _leten_, _laten_; _slepe_, pt. s. _sleep_; _blowe_, pt. s. _blew_; _crowe_, pt. s. _crew_; _growe_, pt. s. _grew_; _knowe_, pt. s. _knew_; _sowe_; _throwe_, pt. s. _threw_; _lepe_ (laep[*e], l[`e][`e]p[*e]), pt. s. _leep_ (l['e]['e]p); _wepe_ (w['e]['e]p[*e]), pt. s. _weep_ (w['e]['e]p). Besides _holde_, _biholde_, we also find the curious infinitives _helde_, _behelde_.