auxiliary verb

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Examples
I am going to Italy on holiday. I had never eaten octopus before. Who would have believed it?

auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)

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

   Synonyms: auxiliary, helper verb, helping verb

Quotations

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Antonyms

• full verb
• (sometimes) modal verb, modal

Hyponyms

• (sometimes) temporal auxiliary verb, temporal auxiliary
• (sometimes) modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary

Translations

a helping verb

• Armenian: օժանդակ բայ (hy) (ōžandak bay)
• Belarusian: дапамо́жны дзеясло́ў (be) m (dapamóžny dzjejaslóŭ)
• Breton: verb-skoazell (br) m
• Bulgarian: спомагателен глагол (spomagatelen glagol)
• Catalan: verb auxiliar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 助動詞／助动词 (zh) (zhùdòngcí)

• Czech: pomocné sloveso (cs) n
• Danish: hjælpeudsagnsord n, hjælpeverbum n
• Dutch: hulpwerkwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: helpverbo (eo)
• Faroese: hjálparsagnorð n
• Finnish: apuverbi (fi)
• French: verbe auxiliaire (fr) m, auxiliaire (fr) m
• Galician: verbo auxiliar m
• Georgian: დამხმარე ზმნა (damxmare zmna), მეშველი ზმნა (mešveli zmna)
• German: Auxiliar (de) n, Auxiliare (de) n, Auxiliarverb (de) n, Hilfsverb (de) n, Hilfsverbum n, Hilfswort (de) n, Hilfszeitwort (de) n
• Greek: βοηθητικό ρήμα n (voïthitikó ríma)
• Hungarian: segédige (hu)
• Icelandic: hjálparsögn (is) f
• Ido: helpoverbo (io)
• Indonesian: kata kerja bantu (id), verba bantu (id)
• Irish: briathar cúnta m
• Italian: verbo ausiliaro m, ausiliare (it)
• Japanese: 助動詞 (ja) (じょどうし, jodōshi), 補助動詞 (ja) (ほじょどうし, hojo dōshi)
• Kazakh: көмекші етістік (kömekşı etıstık)
• Korean: 조동사(助動詞) (ko) (jodongsa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} lêkera alîkar

• Latin: verbum auxiliare n
• Latvian: palīga darbības vārds m
• Lithuanian: pagalbinis veiksmažodis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Hëllefsverb n
• Malay: kata kerja bantu
• Malayalam: സഹായകക്രിയ (sahāyakakriya)
• Norman: vèrbe auxiliaithe m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjelpeverb n

  Nynorsk: hjelpeverb n

• Persian: فعل کمکی (fa), فعل معین
• Polish: czasownik posiłkowy (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: verbo auxiliar (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਹਾਇਕ ਕਿਰਿਆ (pa) f (sahāika kiriā)
• Romanian: verb auxiliar n, verb ajutător n
• Russian: вспомога́тельный глаго́л (ru) m (vspomogátelʹnyj glagól)
• Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair taiceil m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: помоћни глагол m

  Roman: pomoćni glagol m

• Slovak: pomocné sloveso n
• Slovene: pomožni glagol m
• Spanish: verbo auxiliar (es) m, auxiliar (es)
• Swedish: hjälpverb (sv) n
• Tamil: துணைவினை (tuṇaiviṉai)
• Thai: กริยานุเคราะห์ (th) (grì-yaa-nú-krɔ́), กริยาช่วย (th) (grì-yaa-chûai)
• Turkish: yardımcı fiil (tr), yardımcı eylem (tr)
• Ukrainian: допомі́жне́ дієсло́во n (dopomížné dijeslóvo)
• Vietnamese: trợ động từ (vi) (助動詞)
• Welsh: berf gynorthwyol f
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} העלפֿווערב m (helfverb), הילפֿסווערב m (hilfsverb)
• Zazaki: fiilo peştiger

See also

examples of English auxiliary verbs

• be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been, art
• can
• could
• do, does, did
• have, has, had
• may
• might
• must
• shall
• should
• will
• would

• Other types of verbs: Thesaurus:verb