verb
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Средњи Енглески verbe, directly from Латински verbum (“word, verb”) and possibly or reinforced by Стари Француски verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Дублети 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 јул 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] [1], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
- In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes […]
- (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.
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- 2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:
- The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.
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
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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
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Verb
verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)
- (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
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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.
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Conjugation
Quotations
- За наводе коришћења овог термина, видите Цитати:verb.
See also
Anagrams
- brev (alphagram berv)
Breton
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- (grammar) verb
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)
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Румунски
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verb n (plural verbe)
Declension
Noun
verb n
- (grammar) verb
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), “глагол”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika