verbal noun

See also: 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 gerund and deverbal noun. It is a pure noun with no verbal force.

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

1. Brisk walking is good exercise.'

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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動名詞／动名词 (zh) (dòngmíngcí), 动名词 (zh) (dòngmíngcí)

• Czech: podstatné jméno slovesné n
• Danish: verbalsubstantiv n
• Dutch: verbaal substantief n, verbale zelfstandig naamwoord n
• Faroese: sagnarnavnorð n
• Finnish: verbin nimitapa, infinitiivi (fi)
• French: nom verbal m
• Georgian: სახელზმნა (saxelzmna)
• German: Verbalnomen n, Verbalsubstantiv (de)
• Hebrew: שם פעולה / שֵׁם פְּעֻלּה m (shem-pe'ulá)
• Hungarian: igéből képzett főnév, deverbális főnév
• Irish: ainm briathartha m
• Japanese: 動名詞 (ja) (どうめいし, dōmeishi)
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• Macedonian: глаголска именка f (glagolska imenka)
• Norman: nom vèrbal m
• Norwegian: verbalsubstantiv n
• Novial:
• 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
• Telugu: క్రియావిశేష్యము (kriyāviśēṣyamu)
• Thai: อาการนาม (th) (aa-gaa-rá-naam)
• Turkish: ad-fiil, isim-fiil (tr)

See also

• masdar