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See also:Verbandvèrb

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishverbe, directly fromLatinverbum(“word, verb”), reinforced byOld Frenchverbe, fromProto-Indo-European*werdʰo-.Doublet ofverve andword.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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verb (pluralverbs)

  2. (grammar) Aword that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
    The word “speak” is an Englishverb.
    • 1530 July 18,Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, inLeſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] ‎[1], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns,→OCLC, page32; reprinted asLesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints,1972:
      In ſo moche that if anyverbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
  3. (obsolete) Anyword; avocable.
    • 1692–1717,Robert South,Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      aVerb of the Singular
  4. (figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
    Kindness is averb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
  5. (programming) A named command that performs a specificoperation on anobject.
    • 1995, Adam Denning,OLE Controls Inside Out, page321:
      You can invoke the Properties OLEverb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.
    • 2016, Ada Gavrilovska,Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:
      The InfiniBandverbs, 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

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  • Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms thehead of thepredicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquelyconjugate fortense andaspect.

Quotations

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  • 2001,Eoin Colfer,Artemis Fowl, page221:
    Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particularverb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.

Hyponyms

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Translations

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(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state

Verb

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verb (third-person singular simple presentverbs,present participleverbing,simple past and past participleverbed)

  1. (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, inNew York Times, pSM3
      Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nounsverbed 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 January 25, Bill Watterson,Calvin and Hobbes:
      I like toverb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It gotverbed.Verbing weirds language.
    • 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham,learning LATEX, page 8:
      Nouns shouldnever beverbed.
    • 2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, inThe Christian Science Monitor, page 8:
      In English,verbing nouns is okay
    • 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy byverbing the noun”, inThe Guardian‎[2], archived fromthe original on22 September 2024:
      Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have beenverbed.
  2. (linguistics, social sciences)Used as aplaceholder for any verb.
    • 1946, Rand Corporation,The Rand Paper Series:
      For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctorverbed the object," ...
    • 1964,Journal of Mathematical Psychology:
      Each sentence had the same basic structure:The subject transitiveverbed the object who intransitiveverbed in the location.
    • 1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi,Centering Theory in Discourse:
      The sentence frame wasDanverbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases byHe went inside.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofverb
infinitive(to)verb
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularverbverbed
2nd-personsingularverb,verbest†verbed,verbedst†
3rd-personsingularverbs,verbeth†verbed
pluralverb
subjunctiveverbverbed
imperativeverb—
participlesverbingverbed

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Anagrams

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Breton

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Etymology

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FromLatinverbum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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verb m (pluralverboù)

  1. (grammar)verb

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinverbum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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verb m (pluralverbs)

  1. verb

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Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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NorwegianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediano

Etymology

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FromLatinverbum.

Noun

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verb n (definite singularverbet,indefinite pluralverborverber,definite pluralverbaorverbene)

  1. (grammar)verb

Derived terms

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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian NynorskWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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FromLatinverbum.

Noun

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verb n (definite singularverbet,indefinite pluralverb,definite pluralverba)

  1. (grammar)verb

Derived terms

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References

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Romanian

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RomanianWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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FromLatinverbum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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verb n (pluralverbe)

  1. verb

Declension

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singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeverbverbulverbeverbele
genitive-dativeverbverbuluiverbeverbelor
vocativeverbuleverbelor

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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verb n

  1. (grammar)verb

Declension

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Declension ofverb
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteverbverbs
definiteverbetverbets
pluralindefiniteverbverbs
definiteverbenverbens

Synonyms

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Hyponyms

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Descendants

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References

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Anagrams

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Veps

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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verb

  1. verb

Inflection

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Inflection ofverb (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.verb
genitive sing.verban
partitive sing.verbad
partitive plur.verboid
singularplural
nominativeverbverbad
accusativeverbanverbad
genitiveverbanverboiden
partitiveverbadverboid
essive-instructiveverbanverboin
translativeverbaksverboikš
inessiveverbasverboiš
elativeverbaspäiverboišpäi
illativeverbahaverboihe
adessiveverbalverboil
ablativeverbalpäiverboilpäi
allativeverbaleverboile
abessiveverbataverboita
comitativeverbankeverboidenke
prolativeverbadmeverboidme
approximative Iverbannoverboidenno
approximative IIverbannoksverboidennoks
egressiveverbannopäiverboidennopäi
terminative Iverbahasaiverboihesai
terminative IIverbalesaiverboilesai
terminative IIIverbassai—
additive Iverbahapäiverboihepäi
additive IIverbalepäiverboilepäi

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “глагол”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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