Verb

Etymology
From verbe:, from  verbum:, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
 * The word “speak” is an English verb.

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 Thesaurus:verb

Derived terms

 * adverb
 * anomalous verb
 * auxiliary verb
 * boot verb
 * copular verb
 * computational 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
 * 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

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: (fiʕl)
 * Aragonese: berbo
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܡܠܬܐ (miltā’)
 * Hebrew: מלתא (miltā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: verbu
 * Aymara: parliri
 * Azeri: fe'l
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: дзеяслоў
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: 動詞, 动词 (dòngcí)
 * Min Nan: tōng-sû
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Ewe:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ზმნა (zmna)
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingue:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: czasnik
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingue:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: czasnik
 * Kashubian: czasnik


 * Kazakh: етістік
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: этиш
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: ,
 * Lingala: likelelo
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon:
 * Lower Sorbian: werb
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ക്രിയ
 * Mongolian:
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Novial:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: (fel)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ruray rimana
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: glagol
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: феъл
 * Tamil: வினைச்சொல்
 * Telugu: క్రియాపదము
 * Thai: คำกริยา
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: werb
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: (verb), צייטווארט (tsaytvort)
 * Upper Sorbian: werb
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: (verb), צייטווארט (tsaytvort)

Verb

 * 1)  To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
 * 2) * 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....
 * 1) * 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, p8
 * Nouns should never be verbed.
 * 1) * 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8
 * In English, verbing nouns is okay
 * 1)  To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb; for example, to kiss, to be, to think, to write, to disappear, to feel, to see, etc.
 * 2) * 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," ...
 * 1) * 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
 * Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
 * 1) * 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.

Etymology
verbum:

Etymology
From verbum:.

Noun

 * 1) verb

Noun

 * 1) a verb

Declension
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