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Definition 2025
catenative_verb
catenative verb
English
Noun
catenative verb (plural catenative verbs)
- A verb able to be immediately followed by the full or bare infinitive, or gerund (i.e. non-finite verbs), as in “I beg to differ”, where beg is catenative.
Translations
catenative verb
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See also
- Appendix:English catenative verbs