verbal noun

English

Noun

verbal noun (plural verbal nouns)

1. (grammar) A noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning; in English, it contrasts with the gerund and the deverbal noun.

Usage notes

Traditional grammarians often used the term "verbal noun" as a synonym for gerund.

• Brisk walking is good exercise.

It is a pure noun with no verbal force, so it cannot take an object or an adverb (as a gerund can), however, it can be part of a possessive construction (the visiting of a friend) and it can take an adjective (fast driving) as other nouns can. On the other hand, it still refers to the abstract act, process, or occurrence implied in the verb, as opposed to—for example—its result, as a deverbal noun does.

Synonyms

• verbal substantive
• (in Arabic grammar) masdar, nomen verbi

Translations

grammar: noun that is morphologically related to a verb and has similar meaning

• Arabic: مَصْدَر (ar) m (maṣdar)
• Breton: anv-verb (br) m
• Catalan: nom verbal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動名詞／动名词 (zh) (dòngmíngcí)

• Czech: podstatné jméno slovesné n, verbální substantivum n
• Danish: verbalsubstantiv n
• Dutch: verbaalsubstantief n, verbaalnomen n
• Faroese: sagnarnavnorð n
• Finnish: verbin nimitapa
• French: nom verbal m
• Georgian: სახელზმნა (saxelzmna)
• German: Verbalnomen n, Verbalsubstantiv (de) n
• Hebrew: שם פעולה / שֵׁם פְּעֻלּה m (shem-pe'ulá)
• Hungarian: igéből képzett főnév, deverbális főnév, nomen actionis
• Irish: ainm briathartha m
• Japanese: 動名詞 (ja) (どうめいし, dōmeishi)
• Kazakh: масдар (masdar)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mesder (ku)

• Macedonian: глаголска именка f (glagolska imenka)
• Malayalam: ക്രിയാനാമം (ml) (kriyānāmaṁ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үйлт нэр (üjlt ner), тэмдэг үйл үг (verbal noun, gerund, or participle)

  Mongolian: ᠦᠶᠢᠯᠡᠲᠦ
  ᠨᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ (üyiletü ner-e), ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ
  ᠦᠢᠯᠡ
  ᠦᠭᠡ (temdeg üile üge)

• Norman: nom vèrbal m
• Norwegian: verbalsubstantiv n
• Persian: مصدر (fa) m (masdar)
• Polish: rzeczownik odczasownikowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: substantivo verbal m
• Romanian: substantiv verbal n
• Russian: отглаго́льное существи́тельное (ru) n (otglagólʹnoje suščestvítelʹnoje)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmear gnìomhaireach m
• Slovene: glágolnik
• Spanish: nombre verbal m
• Swedish: substantifierat verb
• Tajik: масдар (masdar)
• Telugu: క్రియావిశేష్యము (kriyāviśēṣyamu)
• Thai: อาการนาม (th) (aa-gaa-rá-naam)
• Turkish: ad-fiil, isim-fiil (tr), mastar (tr)
• Ukrainian: віддієслі́вний іме́нник m (viddijeslívnyj iménnyk)
• Urdu: مَصْدَر (ur) (masdar)
• Welsh: berfenw (cy) m

See also

• masdar
• phrasal noun