Thread:User talk:CodeCat/German Mixed verbs/reply (3)

I don't really know about the category, it might be better to ask someone else.

"Treffen" was originally actually a class 5 verb. In German it's hard to tell the difference between class 3 and 4 because they have partially merged. Both would have treffen, traf, trafen, getroffen. In Dutch, the classes are still distinct, and class 3 would have a short vowel with treffen, trof, troffen, getroffen while class 4 verbs always have long vowels and it would be treven, traf, traven, getroven.