I am looking for a list of common English verbs (1000 to 2000 most-frequent) which gives the distinct inflectional forms (spelled: pronunciation is irrelevant). For example, "sits, sit, sat, sat, sitting", "eats, eat, ate, eaten, eating". The purpose of the list is to serve as a component of a verb-generating program in another language. I don't want to have to devise orthographic rules to convert /sit+ing/ into [sitting] and manually typing a list is something I want to avoid. Does such a list already exist?
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It should by possible to extract the list of verb forms from wiktionary and match it against a frequency list (or use the frequency list as a seed for extraction) ... still some amount of work to invest.– Sir CornflakesCommented May 29, 2022 at 11:03
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1Well, that kind of coding is above my pay grade, which is why I'm looking for an actual list.– user6726Commented May 29, 2022 at 15:21
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I have no idea of the frequency, but here is a downloadable list of 1,000 verbs with each of the five forms from the Bangladesh University of Business and Technology
answered May 28, 2022 at 8:36
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1@Draconis - I guess between "state" and "stay" there should have been "stave, staved/stove, staved/stove/stoven, staves, staving" where they couldn't decide which of the alternative forms to use. Or maybe they failed to decide which of the verbs "station", "statue", or "stave" fits their list better. Commented May 29, 2022 at 13:08