Word Finder - verb

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

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The word “speak” is an English verb.

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Any word; a vocable.

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An action as opposed to a trait or thing.

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Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.

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A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

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To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

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(used as a neutral, unspecific verb) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

Never let a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

The subject of the sentence precedes the verb and the object follows it.

Paul evidently plays on the verb, krino, diakrino, katakrino (Kplvw, S&aKplvw, KaraKpivw).

The verb "to gouge" is used in the sense of scooping or forcing out.

It was certainly by Aristotle, because it contained the triple grammatical division of words into noun, verb and conjunction, which the history of grammar recognized as his discovery.

The verb infinitive appears in large print at the right or left corner of the page along with the English translation.

This assumption that Yahweh is derived from the verb "to be," as seems to be implied in Exod.

In the sense of "revere" or "respect," the verb "to worship" occurs in the English Prayer-book, in the phrase "with my body I thee worship" in the Marriage Service.

In negative answers na precedes the verb.

The verb "to quill" is to fold lace, muslin or other light material into narrow flutes or pleats; when so pleated the material is called "quilling."

The adverb usually follows the verb.

In the Ebon language, however, the tenses are sometimes marked; but in that the simple form of the verb is frequently given.

When a noun comes first, it is followed by a relative pronoun, thus, Dafydd a brynodd lyfr yno, which really means " (it is) David who bought a book there," and is never used in any other sense in the spoken language, though in literary Welsh it is used rhetorically for the simple statement which is properly expressed by putting the verb first.

In a simple interrogative sentence the introductory particle before the verb is a, and the positive answer consists in a repetition of the verb; a ddaw Dafydd ?

Assume that the parser doesn't allow anything to precede the verb.

Students are tested on verb endings of regular and irregular verbs.

In declarative sentences, verb reduplication is associated with aspect which is assumed to have a strong feature.

In other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.

This reconstruction, which merges subject and predicate in one expression, in order to combine it with the verb of existence, is repeated in similar proposals of recent English logicians.

He had abandoned for the most part - the Platonic sense of the corresponding verb, viz.

The adducing of a witness for which he uses the verb is not an idea that covers all the uses.

The later "c-w-µ€v was at first a solecism, an attempt to conjugate a " verb in µ.c " like the " verbs in w."

What the grammarians called " tmesis," the separation of the preposition from the verb with which it is compounded, is peculiar to Homer.

The verb has four tenses in the indicative, one in the subjunctive, and one in the imperative.

The regular verb caraf, " I love," is conjugated thus Indicative-Pres.

As in other languages the verb " to be " and its compounds are irregular; the number of other irregular verbs is comparatively small.

The verb may be preceded by an affirmative, a negative, or an interrogative particle.

It is true that, as a matter of fact, the earliest uses of the word (the verb /xXoa04Eiv occurs in Herodotus and Thucydides) imply the idea of the pursuit of knowledge; but the distinction between the aogios, or wise man, and the 4nXoaoa50s, or lover of wisdom, appears first in the Platonic writings, and lends itself naturally to the so-called Socratic irony.

In Syriac the verb means "to make firm," and is the direct source of the Gr.

In the inflexion of the verb there is nothing special to note, except some instances of 2nd pers.

This dictionary contains 766 Spanish verbs, with all major regular and irregular verb conjugations in 13 tenses and moods.

In Hindi, the agreement feature provides an extra retrieval cue at the verb.

When the OED adds the verb form of ' cargo cult ' to its corpus, remember where you read that first.

Ice verb (ice, icing, iced) - To make something icy; to become icy.

It is fair to say that Portuguese grammar is more complex than English, mainly due to verb inflection.

It includes a survey of grammar, with tables for verb conjugations and noun inflections.

And then 3 vi (verb intransitive) meaning verbs which do not take a direct object.

They were asked to use the present participle of the verb.

It also has three participles which help to explain the main verb.

The main part is the ' third part ' of a verb, which is properly called the past participle.

The suffix -n is given to isolated nominal uses of adjectives, or to nominal uses of verb participles.

It is from the verb " sever " but it is past, passive, and adjectival, i.e. a perfective passive participle.

The verb " vouloir " is also use to give a command and still remain polite.

You'll learn about a new form of the verb called the subjunctive, some useful motoring terms and about exchanging currencies.

You can't add two suffixes to the same verb to create a different noun.

These elements are verb suffixes, Prefixes, auxiliary verbs and roots.

In compound tenses we need to include the direct object between the subject and the auxiliary verb.

Time lines are also a great way of conveying the meaning of different verb tenses.

Less garden pathing for obligatorily transitive verbs was found only later, e.g. on the main verb.

Further down you will find 2 vt (verb transitive) meaning verbs which take a direct object, with examples of usage.