Simple past in Dutch -- homophones with other words?

[schnuffichen]

Hello dear linguaphiles :)

Doing your research in a language that you don't speak is a bitch... so now I'm looking for regular simple past words in Dutch that are homophone with or spelled the same way as (either is fine) another Dutch word.
I wish I could give you a better example than killed -- kilt in English (I suppose the simple past form has a

Comments

[moonplanet]

Something like these?

hij zat - hij is zat
(he sat - he is drunk)

hij at - Ad
(he ate - [male name, the d at the end is pronounced as a t])

hij was - de was
(he was - the laundry)

[xwingace]

hij lag - een lach
(he lay - a smile)

Hij reed, een reet
(he rode - a rip (or an arse...))

Hij las - een las
(He read - a weld)

Zij zei
(she said -- both words are pronounced pretty much the same)

XWA

[philena]

A good English example might be "passed/past" or "spelt (if you're British and like spelling)/spelt (flour)."

[pne]

Also rowed~rode/road, packed/pact, saw (did see)/saw (for cutting), felt (did feel)/felt (material), flew/flue~flu (hence the joke name "retired pilots' disease" for the illness...), ground/ground, knit/nit, knew/new, left (did leave)/left (not right), lent/Lent, made/maid, read/red, rose (did rise)/rose (flower), shore (did shear)/shore (coast), slew (did slay)/slew (of problems), spoke (did speak)/spoke (in a wheel), taught/taut(~tort), threw/through, wore/war, wrung/rung, wrote/rote. In some varieties, ate/eight, fought/fort, sawed/sword, sought/sort, won/one.

And for simple pasts that are identical to the present and, because of that, identical to another word: bet, beat, cast, cost, cut, shed (did shed/cast off)/shed (little building), slit

[philena]

Huh--where are ate/eight not homophones? What is the difference?

[pne]

For those who - like my father and I - pronounce "ate" as "et" (rhyming with "bet, set, let").

Dictionary.com marks that pronunciation as "chiefly British".