The German auxiliary verbs are sein, haben and werden. Auxiliary verbs work together with main verbs to form compound tenses and the passive. You’re building a house.Īuxiliary verbs (Hilfsverben) have a strictly grammatical function and have no meaning of their own. Main verbs (Vollverben) express an action, state or process. We can categorise verbs into the following three types: main verbs (Vollverben), auxiliaries (Hilfsverben) and modal verbs (Modalverben). However, unlike strong verbs, we form the past participle of mixed verbs in the same way as weak verbs: with ge…t.Like strong verbs, mixed verbs also change their stem in the Präteritum and/or past participle.Their conjugation is a mix (get it?) of strong and weak: Mixed verbs (gemischte Verben) are also irregular. We form the past participle of strong verbs with ge…en.Some strong verbs also change their stem in certain present tense forms.Įxample: ich fahre, du f ährst, … (Präsens) ich f uhr, du f uhrst, … (Präteritum) Strong verbs change their stem in Präteritum and/or past participle.Strong verbs (starke Verben) are irregular verbs:
Weak verbs (schwache Verben) are regular verbs: Like other languages, German has regular and irregular verbs, but we can also classify German verbs as being weak (schwach), strong (stark) or mixed (gemischt). Example: ich geh e, du geh st, er/sie/es/man geh t, wir geh en, ihr geh t, sie geh en (Präsens) German verbs are conjugated they change their form according to the tense and the subject of the sentence.
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