Category:Icelandic verbs

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Icelandic terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.

• Category:Icelandic verb forms: Icelandic verbs that are conjugated to display grammatical relations other than the main form.
• Category:Icelandic ambitransitive verbs: Icelandic verbs that may or may not direct actions, occurrences or states to grammatical objects.
• Category:Icelandic auxiliary verbs: Icelandic verbs that provide additional conjugations for other verbs.
• Category:Icelandic ditransitive verbs: Icelandic verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states of two grammatical objects simultaneously, one direct and one indirect.
• Category:Icelandic impersonal verbs: Icelandic verbs that do not indicate actions, occurrences or states of any specific grammatical subject.
• Category:Icelandic verbs by inflection type: Icelandic verbs organized by the type of inflection they follow.
• Category:Icelandic intransitive verbs: Icelandic verbs that don't require any grammatical objects.
• Category:Icelandic reflexive verbs: Icelandic verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states directed from the grammatical subjects to themselves.
• Category:Icelandic transitive verbs: Icelandic verbs that indicate actions, occurrences or states directed to one or more grammatical objects.

There are four different types of Icelandic verbs, depending on their inflection and principle parts (see the Icelandic kennimynd):

There are a lot more weak verbs than strong ones.

The third person singular past indicative form of weak verbs ends with a tannhljóðsviðskeyti -aði, -ði, -di, -ti.

• Weak inflection: {{is-verb-weak}} (the category for Icelandic weak verbs)
• Strong inflection: {{is-verb-strong}} (the category for Icelandic strong verbs)
• Preterite-present verbs: {{is-verb-preterite}} (the category for Icelandic preterite-present verbs)
• Ri-verbs: {{is-verb-ri}}(the category for Icelandic ri-verbs)