About this site

There is no simple, clean, Bescherelle-style conjugation reference for Old English verbs. Resources tend to be either buried in grammar appendices, scattered across paradigm tables in course packets, or written for specialists rather than students. This site is an attempt to fill that gap: a structured, verb-centred reference organized by class, where every inflected form is visible at a glance.

It began as a personal study aid and is growing from there. The aim is something useful enough to reach for while working through a text, rather than something requiring its own reading time.

About the author

I am currently a student of Old English, partway through OE-102 at the Ancient Language Institute. I am not a linguist or a language scholar. I am just someone working through the Old English language with genuine enjoyment, finding that building reference tools is a useful complement to formal study. This site is a side project in that spirit.

Inspirations & credits

• The French Bescherelle — the guiding model for this site. A concise, exhaustive verb conjugation reference so embedded in French education that its name has become a common noun. That format, namely, one verb class per spread, every form visible at once, nothing superfluous, translates well to Old English and is the direct inspiration for the layout here.
• The Ancient Language Institute — for making Old English accessible and genuinely enjoyable as a living subject. Their OE-101 and -102 courses are the immediate context in which this site was built.
• Daniel Paul O'Donnell's Old English Paradigms Cheat Sheet — a concise and well-organized paradigm reference that informed the form of some of the patterns used here. Available under CC BY 4.0.

Future directions

Some ideas being considered for future development — no promises, just thinking out loud.

• A testing and drilling mode — flashcards, fill-in-the-blank conjugation, or multiple-choice paradigm practice
• Attested example sentences for individual verbs, drawn from primary Old English sources
• Frequency data — ranking verbs by how often they appear in the Old English corpus, to help prioritize study
• A dedicated page for verbs drawn specifically from Ōsweald Bera (Colin Gorrie / Ancient Language Institute) as a companion resource for students of that reader
• Expanded verb coverage beyond the initial corpus, growing over time as the project matures
• Liking functionality to link related verbs to one another