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German verbs that provide additional conjugations for other verbs.
Among the German auxiliary verbs could be count:
- The tree purely auxiliary verbs used for the formation of compound grammatical tenses and the (werden-)passive: haben, sein and werden
- The six traditional modal verbs: wollen, mögen, sollen, müssen, können and dürfen
- The verb brauchen, frequently considered on the periphery of the modal verbs
- The verbs bekommen, kriegen and erhalten, with comparable meanings in the formation of the dative passive
- The verb lassen when it is used to form causatives of various kinds
- Other verbs with (semi-)auxiliary properties with different degrees of grammaticalization. Due to their meaning (e.g. modal) and syntactic properties (e.g. governing bare infinitives) such as tun, bleiben, gehören