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The conjugation of the Internal link present tense of komen (to come) is perfectly regular, it is just the stem that is irregular:

simple present
simple past
ik kom I come ik kwam I came
je komt you come je kwam you came
hij komt he came hij kwam he came
we komen we come we kwamen we came
jullie komen you come jullie kwamen you came
ze komen they come ze kwamen they came
past participle: gekomen auxiliary verb for pp: zijn

Can you see the irregularity?

Recall the first stem rule: Internal link a long vowel infinitive requires a long vowel stem. At least, this is what goes for regular verbs. In the case of the long-vowel-verb komen, we would expect the stem to be koom. But instead, we have a short-vowel-stem kom.

A few examples of verbs with the same conjugation as komen: bekomen (to recover), ontkomen (to escape), overkomen (to happen to), aankomen (to arrive, to put on weight).

Note that the examples above give you the unstressed Internal link personal pronouns. Some pronouns change when they are stressed in a phrase: je/jij, we/wij, ze/zij (both singular and plural).
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