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Part of speech whose members indicate an action or a state of being.

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Suppletion vs. missing verb forms

Japanese is famous for its very few irregular verbs, but there are some cases where verb-forms are missing and other verbs/adjectives are used instead. …
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What is the maximum number of forms a (modern) Japanese verb can take?

To me, it seems that the whole exercise of counting verb forms really doesn't seem to make much sense for agglutinating verbs, or at least Japanese. … Is it because you want to know how machines parse Japanese verbs? If so, I don't know and would be interested in answers. because you are looking to master all forms of the verbs? …
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German is SOV: should it not have been "Ich ein Berliner bin"?

@jlovegren's answer is complete, just wanted to add some points. Another possible reason for German to be mistaken for SOV is that subordinate clauses usually follow a SOV pattern. Ich weiß, daß ich …
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