verb

See also: vèrb and Verb

§English

Wikipedia

§Etymology

From Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of word.

§Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /vɝb/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːb/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b

§Noun

verb (plural verbs)

1. (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.

   The word “speak” is an English verb.

2. (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)

§Usage notes

Verbs 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

• 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 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

• See also Wikisaurus:verb

§Derived terms

Derived terms

adverb anomalous verb auxiliary verb boot verb copular verb coverb defective verb ditransitive verb dynamic verb full verb helping verb

impersonal verb intransitive verb irregular verb linking verb modal verb passive verb phrasal verb preverb reflexive verb regular verb serial verb stative verb

subject-verb agreement transitive verb verb inflection verb phrase verb tense verbal verbal complement verbal noun verbal regency verbless clause

§Translations

(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state

• Afrikaans: werkwoord (af)
• Albanian: folje (sq) f
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Ancient Greek: ῥῆμα (rhêma)
• Arabic: فعل (ar) m (fiʿl)

  Egyptian Arabic: فعل m (feʕl)

• Aragonese: berbo (an)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܠܬܐ f (miltā’)

  Hebrew: מלתא f (miltā’)

• Armenian: բայ (bay)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: verbu (ast)
• Aymara: parliri
• Azeri: fe'l
• Bashkir: ҡылым (qïlïm)
• Basque: aditz
• Belarusian: дзеяслоў m (dzejaslóŭ)
• Bengali: ক্রিয়া (bn) (kriya)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: verb (br)
• Bulgarian: глагол (bg) m (glagól)
• Burmese: ကြိယာ (my) (kri.ya)
• Catalan: verb (ca)
• Chechen: хандош (χandoš)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 動詞, 动词 (dung⁶ ci⁴)

  Mandarin: 動詞 (zh), 动词 (zh) (dòngcí)

  Min Nan: 動詞 (zh-min-nan), 动词 (tōng-sû)

• Chuvash: глагол (glagol)
• Crimean Tatar: fiil
• Czech: sloveso (cs) n
• Danish: udsagnsord (da) n, verbum (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކއަނ (kaana)
• Dutch: werkwoord (nl) n
• Erzya: теввал (tevval)
• Esperanto: verbo (eo)
• Estonian: tegusõna (et), pöördsõna, verb (et)
• Ewe: dɔwɔnya
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: sagnorð n
• Finnish: verbi (fi), teonsana (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: verbe (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: verbo (gl) m
• Georgian: ზმნა (zmna)
• German: Verb (de) n, Verbum (de) n, Zeitwort (de) n, Tätigkeitswort (de) n, Wandelwort (de) n, Tuwort (de) n/Tunwort (de) n, Aussagewort (de)
• German, Low:

  German Low German: Verb (nds)

• Greek: ρήμα (el) n (ríma)
• Greenlandic: oqaluut
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: haʻina
• Hebrew: פועל (he) (pô'al)
• Hindi: क्रिया (hi) f (kriyā)
• Hungarian: ige (hu)
• Icelandic: sagnorð (is) n, sögn (is) f
• Ido: verbo (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: kata kerja (id)
• Interlingua: verbo
• Interlingue: verbe
• Irish: briathar (ga) m
• Italian: verbo (it) m
• Japanese: 動詞 (ja) (どうし, dōshi)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Jèrriais: vèrbe m
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kashubian: czasnik m
• Kazakh: етістік (etistik)
• Khmer: កិរិយាស័ព្ទ (gēiriyā səp)
• Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
• Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 동사 (ko) (dongsa) (動詞 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کردار

• Kyrgyz: этиш (etiş)

• Lao: ຄຳກຳມະ (lo) (kham kam ma)
• Latin: verbum (la) n
• Latvian: darbības vārds (lv) m, verbs (lv) m
• Ligurian: vèrbo m
• Limburgish: wèrkwaord (li) n, vèrb (li) n
• Lingala: likelelo
• Lithuanian: veiksmažodis (lt)
• Lojban: fasnyvla (jbo)
• Lower Sorbian: werb m
• Macedonian: глагол m (glágol)
• Malay: kata kerja
• Malayalam: ക്രിയ (ml) (kriya)
• Maltese: verb (mt)
• Marathi: क्रियापद (kriyāpada)
• Mirandese: berbo m
• Mongolian: үйл үг (üjl üg)
• Navajo: áhátʼíinii
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Newari: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: vearba
• Norwegian: verb (no)

  Nynorsk: verb (nn)

• Novial: verbe
• Occitan: vèrb (oc) m
• Old English: word (ang) n
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: فعل (fa) (fe'l)
• Polish: czasownik (pl) m
• Portuguese: verbo (pt) m
• Quechua: ruray rimana
• Romanian: verb (ro) n
• Russian: глагол (ru) m (glagól)
• Samogitian: veikruodis
• Scots: verb
• Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глагол m

  Roman: glagol (sh) m

• Sicilian: verbu (scn) m
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: ක්රියා පද (kriyā pada), ක්රියාව (kriyāva)
• Slovak: sloveso (sk) n
• Slovene: glagol (sl) m
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: verbo (es) m
• Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: kielezi (sw)
• Swazi: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: verb (sv) n
• Tagalog: pandiwa (tl)
• Tajik: феъл (tg) (feʾl)
• Tamil: வினைச்சொல் (ta) (viṉaiccol)
• Telugu: క్రియ (te) (kriya)
• Thai: คำกริยา (th) (khâm-kri-yā)
• Turkish: fiil (tr), eylem (tr)
• Turkmen: işlik (tk)
• Ukrainian: дієслово (uk) n (dijeslóvo)
• Upper Sorbian: werb m
• Urdu: فعل m (fe'l)
• Uyghur: پېئىل (pë'il)
• Uzbek: fe'l (uz)
• Vietnamese: động từ (vi) (動詞)
• Volapük: värb (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: berf (cy) f
• West Frisian: tiidwurd (fy) n
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: ווערב (yi) m (verb), צייטווארט n (tsaytvort)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: isenzo (zu) class 7/8

§Verb

verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is 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... .

   • 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning L^AT_EX, p8

     Nouns should never be verbed.

   • 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8

     In English, verbing nouns is okay

2. (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a 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.

§Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

§See also

• v.
• copula
• auxiliary verb
• main verb

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§Catalan

§Etymology

Latin verbum

§Noun

verb m (plural verbs)

1. verb

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§Norwegian Bokmål

Wikipedia ^no

§Etymology

From Latin verbum

§Noun

verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)

1. a verb

§References

• “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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§Norwegian Nynorsk

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

§Etymology

From Latin verbum

§Noun

verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)

1. a verb

§References

• “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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§Romanian

Wikipedia ^ro

§Etymology

From Latin verbum.

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [verb]

§Noun

verb n (plural verbe)

1. verb

§Declension

declension of verb

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un verb	verbul	niște verbe	verbele
genitive/dative	unui verb	verbului	unor verbe	verbelor

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§Swedish

§Noun

verb n

1. a verb

§Declension

Declension of verb

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	verb	verbet	verb	verben
genitive	verbs	verbets	verbs	verbens

§Related terms

• hjälpverb
• verba
• verbal
• verbatim
• verbböjning
• verbform
• verbändelse

§References

• verb in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)