A process of levelling has meant that there are only few examples of this in the modern languages. In East and North Germanic, this levelling was almost complete before the earliest records, though Gothic and Old Norse did have traces of "". In Old English, too, the levelling had already begun to the extent that in some verbs the preterite singular had taken the consonant of the preterite plural. The only surviving example in Modern English is "was:were", but a trace can also be seen in the adjective "forlorn", which reflects the old participle of the verb "to lose", or "sodden", which is originally a participle of "seethe". This latter is parallelled by German "sieden, sott, gesotten". German also features d:t in "leiden, litt, gelitten" ("to suffer") and "schneiden, schnitt, geschnitten" ("to cut"). One example of h:g is "ziehen, zog, gezogen" ("to pull"). All other cases have been levelled. Apart from the English copula mentioned above, the only occurrences of s:r in the modern languages are in Dutch: for example "verliezen, verloor, verloren" ("to lose") and "verkiezen, verkoos, verkoren" ("to choose").