verb
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English verbe, from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb (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 715474564, 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), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
- a Verb of the Singular
- (figuratively) 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.
- 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out (page 321)
Usage notes[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
verb (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, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- 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, p8
- Nouns should never be verbed.
- 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8
- 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
- (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.
- 1946: Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | (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 | ||
imperative | verb | — | |
participles | verbing | verbed |
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:verb.
See also[edit]
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Breton[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb m (plural verboù)
Derived terms[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb m (plural verbs)
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Further reading[edit]
- “verb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb n (plural verbe)
Declension[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
verb n
Declension[edit]
Declension of verb | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | verb | verbet | verb | verben |
Genitive | verbs | verbets | verbs | verbens |
Synonyms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
- → Ingrian: verbi
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Veps[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
verb
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of verb | |||
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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 | ? | 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 | ? | verboihesai | |
terminative II | verbalesai | verboilesai | |
terminative III | verbassai | — | |
additive I | ? | verboihepäi | |
additive II | verbalepäi | verboilepäi |
References[edit]
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “глагол”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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