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- (English) can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, ought, need and dare
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modal verb (plural modal verbs)
- (grammar) A verb whose primary function is to express grammatical mood.
- Synonyms: modal, modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb
2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and Culture, volume 3, number 2, →DOI:Although at first glance combinations of two modal verbs might seem to be cases of grammatical distortion, their use is scientifically recognised.
a verb whose primary function is to express grammatical mood
— see also modal auxiliary
- Catalan: verb modal m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 情態動詞 / 情态动词 (qíngtài dòngcí)
- Czech: modální sloveso n, způsobové sloveso (cs) n
- Danish: modalverbum (da) n, mådesudsagnsord n
- Dutch: modaal werkwoord n
- Finnish: modaalinen verbi
- French: modal (fr) m, verbe modal m
- German: Modalverb (de) n, Modalverbum n
- Hungarian: modális/módbeli (segéd)ige
- Icelandic: háttarsögn (is) f, háttarsagnorð n
- Irish: briathar cúntach m
- Italian: verbo servile m, verbo modale m, servile (it) m, modale (it) m,
- Japanese: 法動詞 (ほうどうし, hōdōshi), 法助動詞 (ほうじょどうし, hōjodōshi) (modal auxiliary)
- Latin: verbum modāle n
- Macedonian: мо́дален гла́гол m (módalen glágol)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: баймж үйл үг (bajmž üjl üg), хандлага үйл үг (xandlaga üjl üg) (China)
- Mongolian script: ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠮᠵᠢ
ᠦᠢᠯᠡ
ᠦᠭᠡ (bayimǰi üile üge), ᠬᠠᠨᠳᠤᠯᠭᠠ
ᠦᠢᠯᠡ
ᠦᠭᠡ (qandulɣ-a üile üge)
- Polish: czasownik modalny (pl) m
- Portuguese: verbo modal m
- Russian: мода́льный глаго́л m (modálʹnyj glagól)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: начински гла̏гол m, модални гла̏гол m
- Latin: načinski glȁgol m, modalni glȁgol m
- Slovene: modalni glagol m
- Spanish: verbo modal m
- Swedish: modalt verb n
- Ukrainian: мода́льне дієсло́во n (modálʹne dijeslóvo)
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