Category:German verbs

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German terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.

For more information, see Appendix:German verbs.

• Category:German verb forms: German verbs that are conjugated to display grammatical relations other than the main form.
• Category:German auxiliary verbs: German verbs that provide additional conjugations for other verbs.
• Category:German causative verbs: German verbs that express causing actions or states rather than performing or being them directly. Use this only for separate verbs (as opposed to causative forms that are part of the inflection of verbs).
• Category:German copulative verbs: German verbs that may take adjectives as their complement.
• Category:German defective verbs: German verbs that lack one or more forms in their inflections.
• Category:German denominal verbs: German verbs that derive from nouns.
• Category:German ditransitive verbs: German verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states of two grammatical objects simultaneously, one direct and one indirect.
• Category:German ergative verbs: German ergative verbs: intransitive verbs that become causatives when used transitively.
• Category:German frequentative verbs: German verbs that express repeated action.
• Category:German imperfective verbs: German verbs that express actions considered as ongoing or continuous, as opposed to completed events.
• Category:German impersonal verbs: German verbs that do not indicate actions, occurrences or states of any specific grammatical subject.
• Category:German verbs by inflection type: German verbs organized by the type of inflection they follow.
• Category:German intransitive verbs: German verbs that don't require any grammatical objects.
• Category:German iterative verbs: German verbs that express the repetition of an event.
• Category:German phrasal verbs: German verbs accompanied by particles, such as prepositions and adverbs.
• Category:German reflexive verbs: German verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states directed from the grammatical subjects to themselves.
• Category:German semelfactive verbs: German verbs that are punctual (instantaneous, momentive), perfective (treated as a unitary whole with no explicit internal temporal structure), and telic (having a boundary out of which the activity cannot be said to have taken place or continue).
• Category:German transitive verbs: German verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states directed to one or more grammatical objects.