By Sean Morissy
There are hundreds of verbs to learn when studying German, but not all are used with the same frequency. Once you've learned how to conjugate German verbs, you must still understand how verbs function within complete sentences. That's where Essential German Verb Skills comes in. Verbs, without any tense associated with them, are known as infinitive verbs. In English, to make a verb infinitive, we add "to" before the verb. In German, we can tell a verb is infinitive, by the -en or -e at the end of the word.