Talk:wassen

There are three conjugations:

to wash:
 * This verb is mixed rather than weak. It used to be strong: wassen -wies -gewassen but the strong wies form went extinct and was replaced by a weak waste. The past participle remains strong: gewassen.

to wax, grow:
 * the verb is a regular strong class 7: wassen - wies - gewassen, although through confusion with 'to wash' it in not used an awful lot

to wax, to put wax on smthng
 * the verb is regular weak: wassen - waste - gewast. Again to avoid confusion, often speakers resot to paraphrase: ski's in de was zetten rather than ski's wassen.

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The conjugation table is only correct for definition 1)


 * I've added the page to our Category:Requests (Dutch) for someone who deals with Dutch entries to have a look at it. Thanks for the note. Mike Dillon 07:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I corrected the conjugations. SPQRobin 14:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)