gawaurkjai - 3 pers, sing, pres, optat - Luk. IX, 50
gawaurkjaima - 3 pers, pl, pres, optat - Luk. IX, 33
gawaurhta - 3 pers, sing, p, indicat - Mrk. III, 14; Luk. I, 68; III, 19; V, 29; XIV, 16; XIX, 16; XIX, 18; Jhn. IX, 6; IX, 11; IX, 14 etc
gawaurhtedun - 3 pers, pl, p, indicat - Matth. VIII, 32; Jhn. XII, 2
gawaurhtedi - 3 pers, sing, p, optat - Luk. XIX, 15; Skeirns. I, 2; I, 4
gawaurkjan - inf - Rom. VII, 18
gawaurkjands - pres.p.- Rom. VII, 13
gawaurkeiþ - 2 pers, pl, imper - Luk. IX, 14
4.2.1. (b) I class weak irregular verbs
Some weak verbs of this class (e.g. brukjan (to use, employ), bugjan (to buy), þagkjan (to think), þugkjan (to think, consider; to seem); waúrkjan (to make, do; to work) and oth), whose stems ended in velar consonants k, ŋ, g, formed their past tense by means of the suffix -ta (while the verbal stem lost the marker of this class -j-); the combination of this velar consonat and the consonant -t of the suffix resulted in -ht-: bugjan → bauhta, brūkjan → brūhta, waúrkjan → waúrhta. In addition, in verbs þagkjan, þugkjan [-ŋkjan], the nasal consonant -ŋ- was dropped and the stem vowel became lengthened, which resulted in the following past tense forms of these two verbs: þāhta and þūhta. The past tense of the verb borrowed from Greek kaupatjan (to buffet, slap) is kaupasta [<*kaupat + -ta].
Past tense/preterite forms of the preterite-present verbs have the same structure.
| I class irregular |
infinitive | preterite singular | preterite plural | past participle |
| to think | þagkjan | þāhta | þāhtēdum | þāhts |
| to make, do; to work | waurkjan | waurhta | waurhtēdum | waurhts |
See the complete paradigm of the conjugation of weak verbs
