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modal verb

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Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)
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Noun

Examples
(English) can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, ought, need and dare

modal verb (plural modal verbs)Category:English lemmas#MODALVERB Category:English nouns#MODALVERB Category:English countable nouns#MODALVERB Category:English multiword terms#MODALVERB Category:English entries with incorrect language header#MODALVERB Category:Pages with entries#MODAL%20VERB Category:Pages with 1 entry#MODAL%20VERB

(grammar Category:en:Grammar#MODALVERB) A verb whose primary function is to express grammatical mood.
Synonyms: modal, modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb
- 2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and Culture, volume 3, number 2, →DOI:
  Although at first glance combinations of two modal verbs might seem to be cases of grammatical distortion, their use is scientifically recognised.
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Translations

a verb whose primary function is to express grammatical mood — see also modal auxiliary

Category:Entries with translation boxes#MODAL%20VERB

Catalan: verb modal mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#MODALVERB
Chinese:
Mandarin: 情態動詞 / 情态动词 (qíngtài dòngcí)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#MODAL%20VERB Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#MODALVERB
Czech: modální sloveso nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#MODALVERB, způsobové sloveso (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#MODALVERB
Danish: modalverbum (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#MODALVERB, mådesudsagnsord nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#MODALVERB
Dutch: modaal werkwoord nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#MODALVERB
Finnish: modaalinen verbiCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#MODALVERB
French: modal (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#MODALVERB, verbe modal mCategory:Terms with French translations#MODALVERB
German: Modalverb (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#MODALVERB, Modalverbum nCategory:Terms with German translations#MODALVERB
Hungarian: modális/módbeli (segéd)igeCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#MODALVERB
Icelandic: háttarsögn (is) fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#MODALVERB, háttarsagnorð nCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#MODALVERB
Irish: briathar cúntach mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#MODALVERB
Italian: verbo servile mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#MODALVERB, verbo modale mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#MODALVERB, servile (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#MODALVERB, modale (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#MODALVERB,
Japanese: 法動詞 (ほうどうし, hōdōshi)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#MODALVERB, 法助動詞 (ほうじょどうし, hōjodōshi)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#MODALVERB (modal auxiliary)
Latin: verbum modāle nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#MODALVERB
Macedonian: мо́дален гла́гол m (módalen glágol)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#MODALVERB
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: баймж үйл үг (bajmž üjl üg)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#MODALVERB, хандлага үйл үг (xandlaga üjl üg)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#MODALVERB (China)

Mongolian script: ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠮᠵᠢ
ᠦᠢᠯᠡ
ᠦᠭᠡ (bayimǰi üile üge)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#MODALVERB, ᠬᠠᠨᠳᠤᠯᠭ᠎ᠠ
ᠦᠢᠯᠡ
ᠦᠭᠡ (qandulg-a üile üge)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#MODALVERB
Polish: czasownik modalny (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#MODALVERB
Portuguese: verbo modal mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#MODALVERB
Russian: мода́льный глаго́л m (modálʹnyj glagól)Category:Terms with Russian translations#MODALVERB
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: начински гла̏гол mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#MODALVERB, модални гла̏гол mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#MODALVERB

Latin: načinski glȁgol mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#MODALVERB, modalni glȁgol mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#MODALVERB
Slovene: modalni glagol mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#MODALVERB
Spanish: verbo modal mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#MODALVERB
Swedish: modalt verb nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#MODALVERB
Ukrainian: мода́льне дієсло́во n (modálʹne dijeslóvo)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#MODALVERB