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WORD GRAMMAR
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Verb
- Conjugation in indicative
- Person and number
- Tenses
- Voice
- Mood
- Verb categories
- Valency
- Semantic categories of verbs
- Finite / non-finite verb forms
- Noun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Article
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Particle
- Interjection
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Verb
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SENTENCE GRAMMAR
- Clause types
- Complex clauses
- Constituents of a sentence
- Sentence structure
- Word order in a sentence
- Negation
Verb categories
Verb categories
Because of their ability to form the predicate, verbs are divided in various categories : full, auxiliary, modal, copular (linking) and empty verbs.
Examples | formation of the predicate | |
full verbs | Petra arbeitet bei der Post. | form the predicate alone |
auxiliary verbs | Wir haben eine leckere Pizza gegessen. | form the predicate together with an infinitive or the past participle (Partizip II) |
modal verbs | Ich muss meine Hausaufgaben machen. | form the predicate together with an infinitive |
copular (linking) verbs* | Seine Töchter sind sehr nett. | form the predicate together with an adjective or a noun |
empty verbs* | Triffst du endlich eine Entscheidung? | form the predicate together with a noun |
* The copular (lnking) verbs and empty verbs form the predicate only with nouns and adjectives, not with infinitive verb forms.