• A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear...
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  • strongly than the main verb, which distinguishes separable verbs from prefixed verbs in pronunciation. The main verb of a separable verb is conjugated like...
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    (我帮他个忙). This is not true of every separable verb in Guoyu, and prescriptive texts still opt to treat these verbs as separable. Minnanyu can ambiguously refer...
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  • adding a prefix or separable particle to many verbs. For example, the verb לײענען leyenen 'read' may be made perfective with the separable particle איבער...
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    developed from Old English prefixed verbs: OE inngan > English go in. English phrasal verbs are related to the separable verbs in other West Germanic languages...
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  • Tmesis (section Verbs)
    later poetry), but not used in Attic prose.[citation needed] Such separable verbs are also part of the normal grammatical usage of some modern languages...
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  • Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation of some of the verb forms, resemble those of English, German grammar differs from that of English...
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  • An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...
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  • A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...
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  • regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...
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  • certain elements prefixed to verbs. In the context of Indo-European languages, the term is usually used for separable verb prefixes. Theoretically, any...
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  • German conjugation (category Indo-European verbs)
    verbs which do not. The conjugations are identical to that of the root verb, and the position of the prefix for both separable and inseparable verbs follows...
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  • Sentence Separable verb Singular Subcategorization Subject Subordination Superlative Tense Uninflected word V2 word order Valency Verb Verb phrase Voice...
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    meaning is not the sum of their parts. Separable verbs are used widely in Pennsylvania Dutch, and separable verbs can even be formed with English roots...
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    commonly in use are be-, ent-, er-, ge-, miss-, ver-, and zer- (see also Separable verb). be- expresses strengthening or generalization. ent- expresses negation...
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  • "to jump" – also means "to run." This term/concept also is used as a separable verb, i.e., rumspringen (to jump around) / er springt rum (he jumps around)...
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  • Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic...
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  • languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. The majority of the remaining verbs form the past tense...
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  • some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...
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  • transitive verb is a verb that accepts one or more objects, for example, 'to enjoy' in Donald enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which...
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  • Infinitive (redirect from Verb infinitive)
    INF) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there...
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  • verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their...
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  • often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...
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  • ruined'. Many verbs have a separable prefix that changes the meaning of the root verb, but that does not always remain attached to the root verb. When attached...
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  • intransitive verb is a verb whose context does not entail a direct object. That lack of transitivity distinguishes intransitive verbs from transitive verbs, which...
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  • A nonfinite verb, in contrast to a finite verb, is a derivative form of a verb that lacks inflection (conjugation) for number or person. In the English...
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  • prepositions, but they occur regularly as part of a pronominal adverb or of a separable verb. The adverbial pronoun and the prepositional adverb can be separated...
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  • may take first place. If the verb is the most important, the unconjugated (normally second) part of the separable verb is placed here, but still separated...
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  • Captative verbs indicate catching and hunting of a specific animal or other target, e.g. English to fish. Usually captatives are not separately marked...
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  • linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...
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