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Verbs in German grammar

Verbs are words that express actions, processes, or states. They show what someone is doing, what is happening, or what state something is in.

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Reflexive Verbs in German Grammar

Reflexive Verbs

Reflexive Verben

Reflexive verbs are verbs in which the action refers to the subject itself and is linked to a reflexive pronoun.
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Light Verbs in German Grammar

Light Verbs

Funktionsverb

Light verbs are verbs that form a fixed unit of meaning together with a noun and often express an action or a state.
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Modal verbs in German Grammar

Modal Verbs

Modalverben

Modal verbs are verbs that specify an action and express whether something is possible, necessary, permitted, or desired.
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Conjugation in German Grammar

Conjugation

Konjugation

Conjugation refers to the adaptation of a verb to person, number, tense, and mood in a sentence.
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Strong Verbs

Starke Verben

Strong verbs are verbs that form their tenses by changing the stem vowel and do not use regular endings.
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Auxiliary Verbs

Hilfsverben

Auxiliary verbs are verbs that are used together with a main verb to form tenses, passive voice, or other verb forms.
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Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verben

Phrasal verbs are verbs that are combined with a preposition or adverb to form a new meaning.
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Transitivity

Transitivität

Transitivity describes whether and which additions a verb needs to convey its full meaning.
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Passive

Passiv

The passive voice is a verb form in which the subject does not perform the action itself, but is affected by someone or something else.
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