This is a lexical feature, although several verbs of the aux categories have polysemic variants functioning as normal verbs. The values pertinent to Swedish are normal, auxiliary-tense, auxiliary-passive, auxiliary-modal. (The term main verb is reserved for purely syntactic functions.)
| Attribute | Value | Sw. example | Sw. tag |
| Type | normal | skriver | vb-mainv |
| auxiliary-tense | har (skrivit) | vb-auxt | |
| auxiliary-passive | blir (skriven) | vb-auxp | |
| auxiiary-modal | skulle(skrivas) | vb-auxm | |