Editing Middle Dutch (section)

====Weak verbs====
Middle Dutch retained weak verbs as the only productive class of verbs. While Old Dutch still had two different classes of weak verbs (and remnants of a third), this distinction was lost in Middle Dutch with the weakening of unstressed syllables.

The past tense was formed with a suffix ''-ed-'', which generally lost its ''e'' through syncope and thus came to be directly attached to the preceding stem. This triggered voicing assimilation, so that ''t'' appeared whenever the preceding stem ended in a voiceless consonant. This phenomenon remains in modern Dutch. Unsyncopated forms, which retain the fuller suffix ''-ed-'', are sometimes found, especially with stems ending in a labial or velar consonant.

Some former class 1 weak verbs retained so-called ''[[Rückumlaut]]''. These verbs had undergone umlaut in the present tense, but the umlaut-triggering vowel was syncopated in the past tense already in Old Dutch, preventing umlaut from taking hold there. Thus, ''senden'' had the first- and third-person singular past tense ''sande''. These verbs tended to be reinterpreted as strong verbs in later Middle Dutch; ''sande'' itself gave rise to the modern ''zond'', mirroring strong class 3.

{|
|
{| class="wikitable"
! Infinitive
| colspan="2" | māken
|-
! Gerund
| colspan="2" | mākene
|-
! colspan="3" | Indicative mood
|-
!
! Present
! Past
|-
! 1st sing.
| māke
| māecte
|-
! 2nd sing.
| māecs, mākes
| māectes
|-
! 3rd sing.
| māect, māket
| māecte
|-
! 1st plur.
| māken
| māecten
|-
! 2nd plur.
| māect, māket
| māectet
|-
! 3rd plur.
| māken
| māecten
|-
! colspan="3" | Subjunctive mood
|-
!
! Present
! Past
|-
! 1st sing.
| māke
| māecte
|-
! 2nd sing.
| māecs, mākes
| māectes
|-
! 3rd sing.
| māke
| māecte
|-
! 1st plur.
| māken
| māecten
|-
! 2nd plur.
| māect, māket
| māectet
|-
! 3rd plur.
| māken
| māecten
|-
! colspan="3" | Imperative mood
|-
! Sing.
| colspan="2" | māke
|-
! Plur.
| colspan="2" | māect, māket
|-
! colspan="3" | Participle
|-
!
| mākende
| gemāect, gemāket
|}
|
{| class="wikitable"
! Infinitive
| colspan="2" | senden
|-
! Gerund
| colspan="2" | sendene
|-
! colspan="3" | Indicative mood
|-
!
! Present
! Past
|-
! 1st sing.
| sende
| sende, sande
|-
! 2nd sing.
| sents, sendes
| sendes, sandes
|-
! 3rd sing.
| sent, sendet
| sende, sande
|-
! 1st plur.
| senden
| senden, sanden
|-
! 2nd plur.
| sent, sendet
| sendet, sandet
|-
! 3rd plur.
| senden
| senden, sanden
|-
! colspan="3" | Subjunctive mood
|-
!
! Present
! Past
|-
! 1st sing.
| sende
| sende
|-
! 2nd sing.
| sents, sendes
| sendes
|-
! 3rd sing.
| sende
| sende
|-
! 1st plur.
| senden
| senden
|-
! 2nd plur.
| sent, sendet
| sendet
|-
! 3rd plur.
| senden
| senden
|-
! colspan="3" | Imperative mood
|-
! Sing.
| colspan="2" | sende
|-
! Plur.
| colspan="2" | sent, sendet
|-
! colspan="3" | Participle
|-
!
| sendende
| gesent, gesendet, gesant
|}
|}