Verbs

das regelmäßige (schwache) Verb

In English: regular (weak) verb

A verb whose stem never changes. It forms the Präteritum with -te and the Partizip II with ge-...-t, like English verbs in -ed (play, played, played).

Example: kaufen: Er kaufte Brot. Er hat Brot gekauft.

Related lessons

• The present tense of regular verbs (A1)
• The Perfekt with haben and the past participle (A2)
• The Präteritum of regular and irregular verbs (B1)

See also

das unregelmäßige (starke) Verb das gemischte Verb das Partizip II