verb

      See also vèrb, and Verb

      English

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      Etymology

      From Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Etymological twin of word.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      verb (plural verbs)

      1. (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
        The word “speak” is an English verb.

      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.

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      Translations

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

      Verb

      verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

      1. (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is 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... .
        • 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
      2. (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.

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      Etymology

      Latin verbum

      Noun

      verb m (plural verbs)

      1. verb
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      Romanian

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      Etymology

      From Latin verbum.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      verb n (plural verbe)

      1. verb

      Declension

      declension of verb
      singular plural
      gender n indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
      nominative/accusative un verb verbul niște verbe verbele
      genitive/dative unui verb verbului unor verbe verbelor
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      Swedish

      Noun

      verb n

      1. a verb

      Declension

      Declension of verb
      singular plural
      Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative verb verbet verb verben
      genitive verbs verbets verbs verbens

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