Germanic verb - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Germanic_verbVerb types. The Germanic verb system carried two innovations over the previous Proto-Indo-European verb system: . Simplification to two tenses: present (also conveying future meaning) and past (sometimes called "preterite" and conveying the meaning of all of the following English forms: "I did, I have done, I had done, I was doing, I have been doing, I had been doing").
Proto-Germanic grammar - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_grammarProto-Germanic had only two tenses (past and present). The present tense descended from the original PIE present imperfective, although there were a few verbs with a present tense that descended from the aorist, in some cases even the aorist subjunctive (which for athematic verbs was identical to the thematic present). The past tense of underived verbs descended from the PIE perfect. The only surviving PIE past imperfective was the past tense of "do". This verb formed th…
Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_languageThe following conventions are used in this article for transcribing Proto-Germanic reconstructed forms: • Voiced obstruents appear as b, d, g; this does not imply any particular analysis of the underlying phonemes as plosives /b/, /d/, /ɡ/ or fricatives /β/, /ð/, /ɣ/. In other literature, they may be written as graphemes with a bar to produce ƀ, đ, ǥ.