more than 200 strong verbs are there in german.
how many strong verbs are there in german?
more than 200 strong
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german verbs may be classified as either "weak", with a dental consonant inflection, or "strong", showing a vowel gradation (ablaut). both of these are regular systems. most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irregular. the only completely irregular verb in the language is "sein" ("to be"). there are more than 200 strong and irregular verbs, but there is a gradual tendency for strong verbs to become weak.
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in modern english, strong verbs include "sing" (present "i sing", past "i sang", past participle "i have sung") and "drive" (present "i drive", past "i drove", past participle "i have driven"), as opposed to weak verbs such as "open" (present "i open", past "i opened", past participle "i have opened"). not all verbs with a change in the stem vowel are strong verbs, however; they may also be irregular weak verbs such as "bring, brought, brought" or "keep, kept, kept". the key distinction is that most strong verbs have their origin in the earliest sound system of proto-indo-european, whereas weak verbs use a dental ending (in english usually "-ed" or "-t") that developed later with the branching off of the proto-germanic. like in english, in all germanic languages weak verbs outnumber strong verbs.
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