The Woxikon database helps you on your search for
verbs / verb forms
and their
individual meanings.
Verbs are words describing an action. Examples are
to drink,
to hop or
to fly.
The term
verb
originates from Latin. The Generator was the word
Verbum, whose translated meaning is just
word. Savants sometimes still use the term with the meaning of
verb.
To define the term
verb especially pupil are trained to differntiate verben into three subcategories:
condition, process and action verbs. The normal German grammar used in the Duden does not know these differentiations.
Other term for verbs are:
do word,
action word or
time word. Verbs are the only German words that can be conjugated.
The part of speech
verb can be divided into
strong,
weak and
irregular.
Verbs can additionally be divided into
full verbs and
Non full verbs. This is relevant by building the predicate.