In Low German, the dental ending of the preterite tense was originally or , according to the stem of the verb. However the ending has fallen out in pronunciation, starting in the 17th century when the preterite was written with the ending "-er" representing the sound which was already the last remnant of the former "-de" and "-te" endings of Middle Low German. Now, the only Low German verbs that still show a remnant of a dental ending are , which has the preterite , and the verb , which has with old "r"-ending from the Middle Low German dental.