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Conjugation of "pay" with lexeme gives "payed" for the past tense of "pay" instead of "paid"

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the Python implementation of lexeme conjugation and the handling of irregular verbs, then trace why pay produces payed. Done means pay returns paid for the past tense without monkey-patching and related behavior remains covered by tests.

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Description

I would like to do some work on this issue, but monkey patching will not be a solution I believe. So it might happen with many other words too, anyone knows where can I start digging in?

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