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:
“O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you
and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country’s
fashion. We are the makers of manners, Kate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)