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
Famous quotes containing the words weak and/or verb:
“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)