The participle passive or perfect of regular verbs terminates in _-ed_; of irregular verbs in _-en_. Occasionally we find the _n_ disappearing, as _bigonn-e_, _fund-e_, _runn-e_, _wonn-e_, where perhaps it is represented by the final _-e_. The prefix _-i_ or _-y_ (A.S. _-ge_) occurs twice only in the poems, in _i-chose_ (chosen), and _i-brad_ (extended); but, while common enough in the Southern and Midland dialects, it seems to be wholly unknown to the Northumbrian speech. The verb in the West-Midland dialect is conjugated according to the following model:-- I.--+Conjugation of Regular Verbs.+ INDICATIVE MOOD. PRESENT TENSE. Singular. Plural. (I) hope, (We) hopen. (Thou) hopes, (Ȝe) hopen. (He) hopes, (Thay) hopen. PRETERITE TENSE. (I) hopede[64] (hoped), (We) hopeden. (Thou) hopedes (hoped), (Ȝe) hopeden. (He) hopede[64] (hoped), (Thay) hopeden. IMPERATIVE MOOD. Hope (thou). Hopes (ȝe). PARTICIPLES. Imperfect or Active. Perfect or Passive. Hopande. Hoped. II.--+Conjugation of Irregular Verbs.+ INDICATIVE MOOD. PRESENT TENSE. Singular. (I) kerve, renne, smite, stonde. (Thou) kerves, rennes, smites, stondes. (He) kerves, rennes, smites, stondes. Plural. (We) kerven, rennen, smiten, stonden. (Ȝe) „ „ „ „ (Thay) „ „ „ „ PRETERITE TENSE. Singular. (I) carf, ran, smot, stod. (Thou) carve, ranne, smote, stode. (He) carf, ran, smot, stod. Very frequently the _e_ in the second person is dropped,[65] as in the Northumbrian dialect, but we never meet with such forms as carves (= carvedest), rannes (= ranst), smotes (= smotest), etc. Plural. (We) corven, runnen, smiten, stonden. (Ȝe) „ „ „ „ (Thay) „ „ „ „ PASSIVE PARTICIPLES. Corven, runnen, smiten, stonden. The Northumbrian dialect does not preserve any separate form for the preterite plural, and this distinction is not always observed in the present poems. +Table of Verbs.+ A.--SIMPLE ORDER. Present. Preterite. Passive Participle. Class I. Hate, hatede, hated.