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ETYMOLOGY.
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2) Compound forms:

Ind. Inf.
Pres.: Sing. bliver elsket at blive elsket
Plur. blive elskede

3) Doubly compound forms:

Perfect: Sing. er bleven elsket at være bleven elsket
or har været elsket or at have været elsket
Plur. ere blevne elskede or have været elskede
Pluperf.: Sing. var bleven elsket or havde været elsket
Plur. vare blevne elskede or havde været elsket
Fut.: Sing. skal or vil blive elsket at skulle or ville blive
or skal elskes elsket or at skulle elskes
Plur. skulle or ville blive elskede or skulle elskes
Conditional: skulde or vilde blive elsket or skulle elskes

209. In this manner are inflected almost all derivative verbs ending in a vowel or in a combination of consonants with which the ending -te does not readily agree.

In poetry verbs ending in a vowel often drop -e before the ending -de, and an apostrophe is written in its place, befride. In Norway verbs ending in a vowel colloquially form their imperf. in -dde and this form is now often used also in literature. naadde reached; trodde believed; etc. instead of naaede, troede.

In forms such as elskede the final -e is often dropped colloquially and in poetry: elsked’ for elskede. In Norway it takes the form elsket, a form that also is commencing to appear in the literature.

Verbs ending in -le and -re with a preceding consonant have their imperative of the same form as their infinitive: handle! act; logre, wag your tail! But imperative of such