skipta 1 (long stem) “part, divide”

“take part; change, exchange; affect, matter to; amount to; adjudicate, decide; happen”

highly frequent

transitive (dat)/impersonal transitive (acc)/intransitive/impersonal intransitive

active voice
present indicative present subjunctive
1sg ek skipti 1pl vér skiptum 1sg ek skipta 1pl vér skiptim
2sg þú skiptir 2pl þér skiptið 2sg þú skiptir 2pl þér skiptið
3sg hon skiptir 3pl þau skipta 3sg hon skipti 3pl þau skipti
preterite indicative preterite subjunctive
1sg ek skipta 1pl vér skiptum 1sg ek skipta 1pl vér skiptim
2sg þú skiptir 2pl þér skiptuð 2sg þú skiptir 2pl þér skiptið
3sg hon skipti 3pl þau skiptu 3sg hon skipti 3pl þau skipti
preterite infinitive skiptu
past participle f. skipt m. skiptr n. skipt
imperative 2sg skipt 1pl skiptum 2pl skiptið
middle voice: skiptask “part ways; change; exchange”
present indicative present subjunctive
1sg ek skiptumk 1pl vér skiptumk 1sg ek skiptumk 1pl vér skiptimk
2sg þú skiptisk 2pl þér skiptizk 2sg þú skiptisk 2pl þér skiptizk
3sg hon skiptisk 3pl þau skiptask 3sg hon skiptisk 3pl þau skiptisk
preterite indicative preterite subjunctive
1sg ek skiptumk 1pl vér skiptumk 1sg ek skiptumk 1pl vér skiptimk
2sg þú skiptisk 2pl þér skiptuzk 2sg þú skiptisk 2pl þér skiptizk
3sg hon skiptisk 3pl þau skiptusk 3sg hon skiptisk 3pl þau skiptisk
past participle n. skipzk
imperative 2sg skipzk 1pl skiptumk 2pl skiptizk

PG *skiptijaną, OE sciftan 1, ME shiften, MnE shift, Dutch schiften. Source of ME skiften.

assimilation  ·  cluster reduction

Corpus search: present active / preterite active / present reflexive / preterite reflexive

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