auxiliary verb

See also: auxiliary-verb

English

Wikipedia

Noun

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.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:auxiliary verb.

Synonyms

• auxiliary
• helper verb
• helping verb

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 ‎(ōžandak bay)
• Bulgarian: спомагателен глагол ‎(spomagatelen glagol)
• Catalan: verb auxiliar m
• 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 n
• Finnish: apuverbi (fi)
• French: verbe auxiliaire (fr) m, auxiliaire (fr) m
• 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 ‎(voithitikó 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)
• Norman: vèrbe auxiliaithe m
• Korean: 조동사 (ko) ‎(jodongsa)
• Latin: verbum auxiliare
• Latvian: palīga darbības vārds m
• Lithuanian: pagalbinis veiksmažodis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Hëllefsverb n
• Malay: kata kerja bantu
• Novial: auxiliari verbe
• Polish: czasownik posiłkowy (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: verbo auxiliar m
• Romanian: verb auxiliar n, verb ajutător n
• Russian: вспомога́тельный глаго́л m ‎(vspomogátelʹnyj glagól)
• Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair taiceil m
• Slovak: pomocné sloveso n
• Slovene: pomožni glagol m
• Spanish: verbo auxiliar (es) m, auxiliar (es)
• Swedish: hjälpverb (sv) n
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yardmcı fiil, yardımcı fiil (tr), yardımcı eylem (tr)
• Yiddish: הילפֿסווערב m ‎(hilfsverb)

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: Wikisaurus:verb