verb
English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#VERBCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werh₁-#VERBCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-#VERBFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#VERBCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#VERB verbe, directly from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#VERB verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#VERB verbe, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#VERB *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and wordCategory:English doublets#VERB.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːb/Category:English 1-syllable words#VERBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
- (US) IPA(key): /vɝb/Category:English 1-syllable words#VERBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
- (Canada) IPA(key): /vəɹb/, [vɚ(ɹ)b]Category:English 1-syllable words#VERBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VERBAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b#VERBCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b/1 syllable#VERB
Noun
verb (plural verbs)Category:English lemmas#VERBCategory:English nouns#VERBCategory:English countable nouns#VERBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
- (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#VERB) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.Category:English terms with usage examples#VERB
- 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#VERB) Any word; a vocable.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- a Verb of the SingularCategory:English terms with quotations#VERB
- (figurative) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#VERB
- (programmingCategory:en:Programming#VERB) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
Usage notes
Quotations
- 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 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.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
Hyponyms
- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms
- abstract verb
- action verb
- adjective verb
- adverb
- attributive verb
- auxiliary verb
- boot verb
- catenative verb
- causal verb
- causative verb
- concrete verb
- control verb
- copular verb
- coverb
- defective verb
- definite verb
- determinate verb
- direct verb
- ditransitive verb
- dynamic verb
- ergative verb
- finite verb
- full verb
- guess the verb
- helper verb
- helping verb
- HTTP verb
- impersonal verb
- indefinite verb
- indeterminate verb
- intradirective verb
- intransitive verb
- irregular verb
- labile verb
- lexical verb
- light verb
- linking verb
- link verb
- main verb
- middle verb
- modal verb
- monotransitive verb
- negative verb
- non-finite verb
- particle verb
- phrasal prepositional verb
- phrasal verb
- potential verb
- prepositional verb
- preterite-present verb
- preverb
- progressive verb
- pronominal verb
- pro-verb
- psych verb
- reflexive verb
- regular verb
- reporting verb
- separable verb
- shoe verb
- stative verb
- stem-changing verb
- strong verb
- subject-verb agreement
- substantive verb
- transitive verb
- vector verb
- verbal
- verbal complement
- verbal noun
- verbal regency
- verb form
- verb-framed
- verb-framing
- verb inflection
- verbless clause
- verb-object
- verb of motion
- verb phrase
- verb tense
- weak verb
- weather verb
- See also: Thesaurus:verb
Translations
(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state
Verb
verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)Category:English lemmas#VERBCategory:English verbs#VERBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#VERB, nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#VERB, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#VERB) 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, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, page 8:
- Nouns should never be verbed.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- 2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8:
- In English, verbing nouns is okayCategory:English terms with quotations#VERB
- 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 September 2024:
- Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#VERB, social sciencesCategory:en:Social sciences#VERB) Used as a placeholder for any 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," ...Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- 1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology:
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#VERB
Conjugation
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| 1st-person singular | verb | verbed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd-person singular | verb, verbest† | verbed, verbedst† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd-person singular | verbs, verbeth† | verbed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| plural | verb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| subjunctive | verb | verbed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| imperative | verb | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| participles | verbing | verbed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:verb.
See also
- copula
- workword
- (converting into or using as another part of speech)
- adjectivize/adjectivise, adjectiveCategory:English links with manual fragments#VERB, adjectify
- adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverbCategory:English links with manual fragments#VERB, (rare) adverbify, adverbize
- nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, nounCategory:English links with manual fragments#VERB, (rare) nounify, substantify, (very rare) substantiveCategory:English links with manual fragments#VERB
- verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verbCategory:English links with manual fragments#VERB, verbify
Etymology 2
Clipping of reverbCategory:English clippings#VERB.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːb/Category:English 1-syllable words#VERBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
- (US) IPA(key): /vɝb/Category:English 1-syllable words#VERBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
- (Canada) IPA(key): /vəɹb/, [vɚ(ɹ)b]Category:English 1-syllable words#VERBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VERBAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b#VERBCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)b/1 syllable#VERB
Noun
verb (plural verbs)Category:English lemmas#VERBCategory:English nouns#VERBCategory:English countable nouns#VERBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Anagrams
Category:English autological terms#VERB Category:en:Verbs#VERBBreton
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Breton terms derived from Latin#VERB verbum.
Pronunciation
Noun
verb m (plural verboù)Category:Breton lemmas#VERBCategory:Breton nouns#VERBCategory:Breton entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Breton masculine nouns#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Derived terms
Category:br:Verbs#VERBCatalan
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#VERBCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#VERB verbum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbɛrp]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈvɛrp]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈvɛɾp]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#VERB
Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#VERBAudio (Catalonia): (file)
Noun
verb m (plural verbs)Category:Catalan lemmas#VERBCategory:Catalan nouns#VERBCategory:Catalan countable nouns#VERBCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “verb”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin#VERB verbum.
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#VERBCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#VERBCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin#VERB verbum.
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#VERBCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#VERBCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#VERB verbum.
Pronunciation
Noun
verb n (plural verbe)Category:Romanian lemmas#VERBCategory:Romanian nouns#VERBCategory:Romanian countable nouns#VERBCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | verb | verbul | verbe | verbele |
| genitive-dative | verb | verbului | verbe | verbelor |
| vocative | verbule | verbelor | ||
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
verb nCategory:Swedish lemmas#VERBCategory:Swedish nouns#VERBCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Swedish neuter nouns#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | verb | verbs |
| definite | verbet | verbets | |
| plural | indefinite | verb | verbs |
| definite | verben | verbens |
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “verb”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
Anagrams
Category:sv:Parts of speech#VERBVeps
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Veps entries#VERB
Noun
verbCategory:Veps lemmas#VERBCategory:Veps nouns#VERBCategory:Veps entries with incorrect language header#VERBCategory:Pages with entries#VERBCategory:Pages with 8 entries#VERB
Inflection
| Inflection of verb (inflection type 5/sana) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | verbaha | 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 | verbahasai | verboihesai | |
| terminative II | verbalesai | verboilesai | |
| terminative III | verbassai | — | |
| additive I | verbahapäi | verboihepäi | |
| additive II | verbalepäi | verboilepäi | |
References
- 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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