German verbs : weak, strong and irregular

German verbs : weak, strong and irregular

Verbs in German, as in English, may be weak, strong or irregular.

1) Weak verbs are verbs which retain the SAME stem vowel throughout;

2) strong verbs are those which systematically CHANGE the stem vowel;

3) and irregular verbs ( which could be said to have a mixed conjugation, to use the term employed for a similar phenomenon in noun and adjective declension) have some characteristics of each of the other two groups.