Study Resource: List of German verbs that form the perfect tense with ‘haben’ vs. ‘sein’

to accept

to accept

to change

to work

to bake

to build

to apply for

to finish

to command

to begin

to bite

to rescue

to deceive

to persuade

to bend

to offer

to tie

to request

to blow

to roast

to burn

to bring

to book

to take some time

to think

to serve

to thresh

to threaten

to print

to press

to be allowed to

to recommend

to discover

to explain

to eat

to catch

to fence

to be missing

to celebrate

to find

to plait

to ask

to eat (of animals)

to freeze, to be cold

to feel

to fear

to give birth

to give

to please

to be valid

to enjoy

to win

to water

to believe

to resemble

to smolder

to dig

to grab

to greet

to have

to hold

to act

to be hanging

to hang up

to hit

to lift

to be called

to help

to hope

to hear

to buy

to sweep

to know

to sound

to pinch

to be able

to cost

to try food

to load

to let

to live

to put down

to lean

to suffer

to borrow, to lend

to learn, to study

to read

to love

to be lying down

to tell lies

to do, to make

to measure

to like

to have to

to take

to name

to open

to fit

to whistle

to care for

to praise

to guess

to smoke

to talk

to rub

to suffice

to tear

to rescue

to smell, to scent

to wrestle

to call

to say

to booze

to suck

to create

to look, to watch

to seem, to shine

to scold

to push

to sleep

to hit

to grind

to close

to gobble

to chuck

to cut

to write

to scream

to remain silent

to swear

to see

to send

to sing

to sit

to be supposed to

to save (money)

to be crazy, to weave

to speak

to spit

to launch

to stab, to sting

to stand

to steal

to put upright

to stink

to push

to brush

to quarrel

to overthrow

to look for

to separate

to carry, to wear

to meet

to drive (cattle)

to step, to kick

to drink

to do

to improve

to forbid

to earn

to forget

to sell

to lose

to understand

to forgive

to choose

to warn

to wash

to weave

to turn (around)

to advertise

to throw

to weigh

to know

to live

to want to

to wring

to pay

to count

to show

to break something

to pull

to force

to burst

to turn (left/right)

to stay

to follow

to break

to invade

to march

to expire

to hop

to startle

to drive

to fall (down)

to fly

to flee

to jog

to flow

to climb

to expire

to go

to be a success

to recover

to happen

to glide

to land

to come

to come

to crawl

to walk

to paddle

to ride a horse

to run

to travel

to row

to sail

to sneak

to melt

to march on

to swell

to swim

to start (to go)

to stumble

to fall down

to be

to sink

to sprout

to jump

to rise

to die

to dive

to return

to return

to hike

to move (houses)

to get up

to rot

to grow

to give way

to become

to wake up

to fall asleep

to explode

to freeze

to burst

to hatch

to thaw

to wither

to wither

to disappear

to be canceled

to encounter

to arrive

to originate

to suffocate

to drown

to be a failure

to starve

to occur