• Basics
• Intro
• I, You, They
• I am, I have
• Things You Ask at School
• Who, What, Why
• Doing Things
• Verb Basics
• Basic Sentence Structure
• Basic Verbs
• Anatomy of a Verb
• Things
• German for Kiwis
• Names of Things
• The, The, The
• The thing, a thing
• Some lists of things
• Bits n Pieces
• Time
• Numbers
• More Gramma
• Accuse who? Nominate what?
• Thats my thing!
• Commands!!!!
• Dativ
• Prepositions
• Before, Now, After
• Tenses
• Even More Gramma
• What sort of thing?

Anatomy of a Verb

The form of a verb that you find in a German dictionary always has the ending -en. For example to find the verb 'to do' you would look up machen. Sleep is schlafen etc

This is called the infinitiv form of the verb.

If you remove the -en from the verb you have what is known as the stem. For example 'mach' is the stem for the infinitiv form of machen, 'schlaf' is the stem for schlafen etc