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:
“For them it’s out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)