konjugationsforms

Konjugationsformen, or conjugation forms, are the inflected forms of a verb that encode grammatical features such as person and number, tense, mood, voice, and sometimes aspect and negation. They enable a verb lemma to appear in multiple forms to agree with its subject and to express time or modality.

Finite forms carry information about person and number and can function as the predicate in a clause (for example: English I walk, you walk, he walks; German ich gehe, du gehst, er geht). Non-finite forms include the infinitive and participles (to walk, walking, walked) and, in some languages, gerunds; these forms do not by themselves specify the subject.

Conjugation systems are typically organized into paradigms or classes. Regular verbs follow predictable endings, while irregular verbs show stem changes, vowel alternations, or irregular endings. German, Spanish, French, and Italian offer both regular and irregular patterns, whereas English relies more on a smaller set of irregular forms and auxiliary constructions to express tense and aspect.

Knowledge of konjugationsformen supports grammatical agreement, tense and aspect interpretation, mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), and voice (active, passive). It is a central part of language grammar and of language-learning resources such as dictionaries and conjugation tables. Across languages, the exact forms and categories differ, but the function—to encode who acts, when, and how—is a common feature of verb systems.