Weak Verb

Weak verb may refer to:

  • light verb, or "semantically weak verb", verb participating in complex predication that has little semantic content of its own, but provides through inflection some details on the event semantics, such as aspect, mood, or tense
  • weak inflection, conjugation class opposed to "strong inflection"
    • Germanic weak verb, weak inflection class in Germanic languages
See also: Germanic strong verb and Irregular verb

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