auxiliary verb

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Auxiliary verb

NounEdit

auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)

(grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.

QuotationsEdit

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SynonymsEdit

helping verb

AntonymsEdit

full verb

TranslationsEdit

a helping verb

Armenian: օժանդակ բայ (ōžandak bay)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 助動詞 (zh), 助动词 (zh) (zhùdòngcí)
Czech: pomocné sloveso n
Danish: hjælpeudsagnsord n, hjælpeverbum n
Dutch: hulpwerkwoord (nl) n
Esperanto: helpa verbo
Faroese: hjálparsagnorð f
Finnish: apuverbi (fi)
French: verbe auxiliaire (fr) m, auxiliaire (fr) m
German: Hilfsverb (de) n, Hilfszeitwort (de) n
Hungarian: segédige (hu)
Icelandic: hjálparsögn (is) f
Ido: helpoverbo (io)
Italian: verbo ausiliaro m
Japanese: 助動詞 (ja) (じょどうし, jodōshi)

Jèrriais: vèrbe auxiliaithe m
Korean: 조동사 (ko) (jodongsa)
Latvian: palīga darbības vārds m
Lithuanian: pagalbinis veiksmažodis (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Hëllefsverb n
Novial: auxiliari verbe
Portuguese: verbo auxiliar
Romanian: verb auxiliar n, verb ajutător n
Russian: вспомогательный глагол m (vspomogátel'nyj glagól)
Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair taiceil m
Slovak: pomocné sloveso n
Spanish: verbo auxiliar (es) m
Swedish: hjälpverb (sv) n
Turkish: yardımcı fiil (tr), yardımcı eylem (tr)
Yiddish: הילפֿסווערב m (hilfsverb)

See alsoEdit

examples of auxiliary verbs

other types of verbs

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Last modified on 10 January 2014, at 09:05