verb
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latinski verbum (“word, verb”) and possibly or reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Dubleti of verve and word.
Pronunciation
Noun
verb (plural verbs)
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
- 1530 jul 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] [1], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, OCLC 715474564, strana 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
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- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- (figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
- (programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
- 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, strana 321:
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- 2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:
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Usage notes
Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.
Quotations
- 2001, w:Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, strana 221:
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Hyponyms
- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms
- abstract verb
- action verb
- adjective verb
- adverb
- auxiliary verb
- boot verb
- catenative verb
- concrete verb
- control verb
- copular verb
- coverb
- defective verb
- direct verb
- ditransitive verb
- dynamic verb
- ergative verb
- finite verb
- full verb
- helper verb
- helping verb
- impersonal verb
- indeterminate verb
- intradirective verb
- intransitive verb
- irregular verb
- labile verb
- lexical verb
- light verb
- linking verb
- main verb
- modal verb
- monotransitive verb
- negative verb
- non-finite verb
- particle verb
- phrasal prepositional verb
- phrasal verb
- prepositional verb
- preterite-present verb
- preverb
- progressive verb
- pronominal verb
- pro-verb
- psych verb
- reflexive verb
- regular verb
- reporting verb
- separable verb
- shoe verb
- stative verb
- strong verb
- subject-verb agreement
- substantive verb
- transitive verb
- vector verb
- verbal
- verbal complement
- verbal noun
- verbal regency
- verb form
- verb-framed
- verb-framing
- verb inflection
- verbless clause
- verb-object
- verb of motion
- verb phrase
- verb tense
- weak verb
- See also: Thesaurus:verb
Translations
(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state
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Verb
verb
- (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .
- 1993 januar 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
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- 1997, David. F. Griffiths; Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, strana 8:
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- 2005 oktobar 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, strana 8:
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- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
- 1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series:
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- 1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology:
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- 1998, Marilyn A. Walker; Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse:
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Conjugation
Quotations
- Za navode korišćenja ovog termina, vidite Citati:verb.
See also
Anagrams
- brev (alphagram berv)
Breton
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
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Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Rumunski
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verb n (plural verbe)
Declension
declension of verb
Noun
verb n
Declension
Declension of verb | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | verb | verbet | verb | verben |
Genitive | verbs | verbets | verbs | verbens |
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
Anagrams
- brev (alphagram berv)
Veps
Etymology
Noun
verb
Inflection
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “glagol”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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