<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> What is to be done with the verb? Parts of speech, and the verb in particular, have always been a key focus of school grammar instruction, even though there has never been a canonical analysis of the German verb in academic linguistics or language didactics. This compendium suggests productive approaches for exploiting the grammatical and didactic potential of the verb.