German

Alternative forms

• Verbe (plural, dated)

Noun

Verb n ‎(genitive Verbs, plural Verben)

1. (grammar) verb

Synonyms

• Verbum
• Zeitwort
• Tätigkeitswort, Tatwort (dated: Thatwort), Tuwort/Tunwort
• Wandelwort
• Aussagewort; maybe dated: Redewort, Meldewort, Sagewort, Aussager, Aussaganzeiger
• maybe dated: Begebenheitswort, Beilegwort, Satzwort, Sätzer
• maybe dated: Zustandswort (also used for Latin verbum intransitivum, i.e. intransitive verb), Handlungswort (also used for Latin verbum transitivum, i.e. transitive verb)

Hyponyms

• Hauptverb = Vollverb, Hilfsverb = Auxiliarverb, Modalverb, Modalitätsverb
• Finitverb, Infinitverb, Infinitivverb
• Impersonale
• Transitivverb = Transitiv(um), Intransitivverb = Intransitiv(um), Reflexivverb
• Pronominalverb
• Deponens = Deponensverb
• Faktitiv(um) (dated: Factitivum) = Kausativ(um), Frequentativ(um) = Iterativ(um), Desiderativ(um), Imitativ(um), Inchoativ(um), Intensivum
• Rückumlautverb
• Präteritopräsens

Derived terms

• verbalisch, verbal, verbalisieren, Verbalisierung (ambiguous, can also refer to (spoken) words)
• Deverbativum, deverbal, Verbalsubstantiv
• Bewirkungsverb = Veranlassungsverb

English

Alternative forms

• vb., v. (abbreviation)

Noun

verb ‎(plural verbs)

1. (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.

   The word “speak” is an English verb.

2. (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)

Usage notes

Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.

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: Wikisaurus:verb

Derived terms

• See also: Wikisaurus:verb

Translations

Verb

verb ‎(third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is 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... .

   • 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning L^AT_EX, p8

     Nouns should never be verbed.

   • 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8

     In English, verbing nouns is okay

2. (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a 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," ...

   • 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology

     Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.

   • 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.

Conjugation

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:verb.

See also

• copula

Catalan

Etymology

Latin verbum

Noun

verb m ‎(plural verbs)

1. verb

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin verbum

Noun

verb n ‎(definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)

1. a verb

Derived terms

• verbbøying

References

• “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin verbum

Noun

verb n ‎(definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)

1. a verb

Derived terms

• verbbøying

References

• “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin verbum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [verb]

Noun

verb n ‎(plural verbe)

1. verb

Declension

Swedish

Noun

verb n

1. a verb

Declension

Synonyms

• kraftord

Hyponyms

• hjälpverb

Related terms

• verba
• verbal
• verbatim
• verbböjning
• verbform
• verbändelse

References

• verb in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Veps

Noun

verb

1. verb

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “глагол”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika