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Specializations => Language Acquisition => Topic started by: Laura on March 29, 2022, 12:59:01 PM

Title: Deutsche verben transitiv/intransitiv
Post by: Laura on March 29, 2022, 12:59:01 PM

Hi everybody,
Ich suche nach Verbenliste die sowohl transitiv als auch intransitive verben erscheinen. Z.B. die Suppe kocht, er kocht die Suppe.wo koennte ich liste mit solchen verben finden?

Danke im Voraus.

Title: Re: Deutsche verben transitiv/intransitiv
Post by: Daniel on March 29, 2022, 02:44:03 PM

Hello and welcome.

I'm not sure about a list specifically (although there might be one in a normative reference, such as one of the Duden works).

But two relevant terms for this are "ambitransitive" (clearer but I think less common) and "labile (verbs)" (more traditional):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/labile_verb

Those terms are used at least for English, so searching for some translations in German might give you some useful results.

Note that there is also a question about argument structure, e.g. "I eat" vs. "I eat food", but "I broke the window" and "the window broke" (but not "I broke" with the same meaning). The second type have been called "middle voice" for English, and some other languages have morphology to derive that meaning, e.g. along the lines of "the window broke itself".


(Note that you are welcome to post here in German or any language you prefer, but more users will be able to reply in English.)