6. Strong/Irregular Verb Patterns 6.2

Some strong verbs with a stem vowel -e- change this vowel to -ie- in the second and third persons singular.

Verbs that behave this way in the present tense include: befehlen (to order; to command), empfehlen (to recommend), geschehen (to happen), lesen (to read), sehen (to see), stehlen (to steal).