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Why don't all verbs end in ed?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Old and older verbs are largely irregular. They probably got their forms when the speakers needed to use the respective verb in a certain tense. All the newly formed verbs are - however - regular, because all languages tend to become more logical, easier, less complicated.

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