verb
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːb/
- (US) IPA(key): /vɝb/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /vəɹb/, [vɚ(ɹ)b]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Noun
editverb (plural verbs)
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
- 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] [1], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
- In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes […]
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- a Verb of the Singular
- (figurative) 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.
Usage notes
editVerbs 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
edit- 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 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
edit- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms
edit- abstract verb
- action verb
- adjective verb
- adverb
- attributive verb
- auxiliary verb
- boot verb
- catenative verb
- concrete verb
- control verb
- copular verb
- coverb
- defective verb
- direct verb
- ditransitive verb
- dynamic verb
- ergative verb
- finite verb
- full verb
- guess the verb
- helper verb
- helping verb
- HTTP verb
- impersonal verb
- indeterminate verb
- intradirective verb
- intransitive verb
- irregular verb
- labile verb
- lexical verb
- light verb
- linking verb
- link verb
- main verb
- middle verb
- modal verb
- monotransitive verb
- negative verb
- non-finite verb
- particle verb
- phrasal prepositional verb
- phrasal verb
- prepositional verb
- preterite-present verb
- preverb
- progressive verb
- pronominal verb
- pro-verb
- psych verb
- reflexive verb
- regular verb
- reporting verb
- separable verb
- shoe verb
- stative verb
- strong verb
- subject-verb agreement
- substantive verb
- transitive verb
- vector verb
- verbal
- verbal complement
- verbal noun
- verbal regency
- verb form
- verb-framed
- verb-framing
- verb inflection
- verbless clause
- verb-object
- verb of motion
- verb phrase
- verb tense
- weak verb
- See also: Thesaurus:verb
Translations
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Verb
editverb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)
- (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, 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... .
- 1993 January 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
- I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
- 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, page 8:
- Nouns should never be verbed.
- 2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8:
- 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
- (linguistics, social sciences) Used as a placeholder 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 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.
Conjugation
editinfinitive | (to) verb | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | verb | verbed | |
2nd-person singular | verb, verbest† | verbed, verbedst† | |
3rd-person singular | verbs, verbeth† | verbed | |
plural | verb | ||
subjunctive | verb | verbed | |
imperative | verb | — | |
participles | verbing | verbed |
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:verb.
See also
editAnagrams
editBreton
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editverb m (plural verboù)
Derived terms
editCatalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editverb m (plural verbs)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “verb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editNoun
editverb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
editverb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editverb n (plural verbe)
Declension
editSwedish
editPronunciation
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Noun
editverb n
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | verb | verbs |
definite | verbet | verbets | |
plural | indefinite | verb | verbs |
definite | verben | verbens |
Synonyms
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editRelated terms
editDescendants
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editEtymology
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Noun
editverb
Inflection
editInflection of verb (inflection type 5/sana) | |||
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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 | verbaha | 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 | verbahasai | verboihesai | |
terminative II | verbalesai | verboilesai | |
terminative III | verbassai | — | |
additive I | verbahapäi | verboihepäi | |
additive II | verbalepäi | verboilepäi |
References
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werh₁-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Old French
- English doublets
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b/1 syllable
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- English countable nouns
- en:Grammar
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
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- en:Programming
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English nonstandard terms
- English colloquialisms
- en:Linguistics
- en:Social sciences
- English autological terms
- en:Verbs
- Breton terms derived from Latin
- Breton terms with IPA pronunciation
- Breton lemmas
- Breton nouns
- Breton masculine nouns
- br:Verbs
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Parts of speech
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- nb:Grammar
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Grammar
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
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- ro:Parts of speech
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
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- sv:Grammar
- sv:Parts of speech
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns
- Veps sana-type nominals
- vep:Parts of speech