In the #GermanicLanguages, a #strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of #changesToTheStemVowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language are strong; the majority are #weakVerbs, which form the past tense by means of a #dental #suffix. In modern English, strong verbs include #sing (present I sing, past I sang, #pastParticiple I have sung) and #drive (present I drive, past I drove, past participle I have driven), as opposed to weak verbs such as open (present I open.