What is "weak verb"

n. (context grammar English) One of a class of Germanic verbs which use a dental affix appended to the stem to indicate tense.

Weak verb may refer to:

• light verb, or "semantically weak verb", verb participating in complex predication that has little semantic content of its own, but provides through inflection some details on the event semantics, such as aspect, mood, or tense
• weak inflection, conjugation class opposed to "strong inflection"
  • Germanic weak verb, weak inflection class in Germanic languages