verb
English
Etymology
From Middle English verbe, from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of word.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /vɝb/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːb/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Noun
verb (plural verbs)
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
- (figuratively) 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 (page 321)
- You can invoke the Properties OLE verb 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 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.
- 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out (page 321)
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 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 221
- Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.
Hyponyms
- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms
- adverb
- coverb
- intransitive verb
- preverb
- subject-verb agreement
- transitive verb
- verbal
- verbal complement
- verbal noun
- verbal regency
- verb inflection
- verbless clause
- verb phrase
- verb tense
- See also: Thesaurus:verb
Translations
(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state
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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 not, or had not been 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... .
- 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, p8
- Nouns should never be verbed.
- 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8
- In English, verbing nouns is okay
- 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
- For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
- 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
- 1998: Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse
- The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
- 1946: Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
Conjugation
Conjugation of verb
infinitive | (to) verb | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | verb | verbed | ||
2nd person singular | verb, verbest* | |||
3rd person singular | verbs, verbeth* | |||
plural | verb | |||
subjunctive | verb | |||
imperative | verb | — | ||
participles | verbing | verbed | ||
* Archaic or obsolete. |
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:verb.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [verb]
Swedish
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
- kraftord
Hyponyms
- hjälpverb
Veps
Etymology
Inflection
Inflection of verb | |||
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nominative sing. | verb | ||
genitive sing. | verban | ||
partitive sing. | verbad | ||
partitive plur. | verboid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | verb | verbad | |
accusative | verban | verbad | |
genitive | verban | verboiden | |
partitive | verbad | verboid | |
essive-instructive | verban | verboin | |
translative | verbaks | verboikš | |
inessive | verbas | verboiš | |
elative | verbaspäi | verboišpäi | |
illative | ? | verboihe | |
adessive | verbal | verboil | |
ablative | verbalpäi | verboilpäi | |
allative | verbale | verboile | |
abessive | verbata | verboita | |
comitative | verbanke | verboidenke | |
prolative | verbadme | verboidme | |
approximative I | verbanno | verboidenno | |
approximative II | verbannoks | verboidennoks | |
egressive | verbannopäi | verboidennopäi | |
terminative I | ? | verboihesai | |
terminative II | verbalesai | verboilesai | |
terminative III | verbassai | — | |
additive I | ? | verboihepäi | |
additive II | verbalepäi | verboilepäi |
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “глагол”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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