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:
“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 1:27.
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)