In many other European languages, the equivalent of "to have" (e.g. German "haben", French "avoir", Italian "avere") is used to form the present perfect (or their equivalent of the present perfect) for most or all verbs. However, the equivalent of "to be" (e.g. German "sein", French "être", Italian "essere") serves as the auxiliary for other verbs in some languages, such as German, Dutch, Danish (but not Swedish or Norwegian), French, and Italian (but not Spanish or Portuguese). Generally, the verbs that take "to be" as an auxiliary are intransitive verbs denoting motion or change of state (e.g. "to arrive, to go, to fall").