see|Verb
English
wikipedia
Etymology
From old French verbe, from Latin verbum ("word"), from Proto-Indo-European *wer-.
Pronunciation
IPA|/v��(r)b/
SAMPA|/v3:(r)b/
audio|en-us-verb.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
en-noun
- grammar A category of words that indicate an action, event or a state; in a clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate. In most languages verbs uniquely inflect for tense.
Quotations
2001 � w:Eoin Colfer|Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 221
Related terms
top3
adverb
anomalous verb
auxiliary verb
boot verb
copular verb
coverb
defective verb
ditransitive verb
dynamic verb
helping verb
impersonal verb
mid3
intransitive verb
irregular verb
linking verb
modal verb
passive verb
phrasal verb
preverb
regular verb
serial verb
stative verb
mid3
subject-verb agreement
transitive verb
verb inflection
verb phrase
verb tense
verbal
verbal complement
verbal noun
verbal regency
verbless clause
Translations
trans-top|a grammatical category of words that indicate an action, event or a state
Albanian: folje f
Arabic: ARchar|�ع� unicode|(fé�al) m
Armenian: t-|hy|Õ¢Õ¡Õµ|scHayeren|xsArmenian
Bosnian: t-|bs|glagol|m
Bulgarian: t+|bg|глагол|m|trglagól|scCyrl
Catalan: #Catalan|verb
Chinese:
Croatian: t-|hr|glagol|m
Czech: t-|cs|sloveso|n
Dutch: t+|nl|werkwoord|n
Danish: udsagnsord n
Esperanto: t-|eo|verbo|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: tegusõna, #Estonian|verb
Faroese: t-|fo|sagnorð|n|xs=Faroese
Finnish: t+|fi|verbi, t-|fi|teonsana
French: t+|fr|verbe|m
German: t+|de|Zeitwort|n, t+|de|Verb|n, t-|de|Verbum|n
Greek: �ήμα [�rima] n
Hebrew: פ�ע� (pô'al)
Hindi: t+|hi|��रिया|scDeva|xsHindi
Hungarian: t+|hu|ige
Icelandic: t+|is|sagnorð|n
Indonesian: kata kerja
Interlingua: verbo
Irish: t+|ga|briathar|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|verbo|m
trans-mid
Japanese: �� (���, d�shi)
Korean: �� (��, dongsa)
Kurdish: KUchar|کردار
Latin: t+|la|verbum|n
Latvian: darbības v�rds m
Malay: t-|ms|kata kerja|xs=Malay
Malayalam: ��രിയ (kriya)
Norwegian: t+|no|verb
Novial: verbe
Old English: t+|ang|word|n|xs=Old English
Persian: FAchar|�ع� (fel)
Polish: t-|pl|czasownik|m
Portuguese: t+|pt|verbo|m
Romanian: t+|ro|verb|n
Russian: t+|ru|глагол|m|trglagól|scCyrl
Serbian:
Slovene: t+|sl|glagol|m
Spanish: t+|es|verbo|m
Swedish: t+|sv|verb|n
Thai: THchar|�ำ�ริยา (khâm-kri-y�)
Telugu: ��రియాపదమ� (kriy�padamu)
Turkish: t-|tr|fiil, t-|tr|eylem
Vietnamese: t+|vi|��ng từ|xs=Vietnamese
Welsh: berf
trans-bottom
Verb
en-verb
- context|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... .
#* 1985 Oct 13, William Safire, Invasion of the Verb Makers, in San Francisco Chronicle, p19
#*: Others, come to think of it, would also choose verb, with no suffix at all: "Don't verb nouns" is an obvious fumblerule.
#* 1996, Peter Brodie, Never Say Never: Teaching Grammar and Usage, in The English Journal 85(7), p77
#*: You mustn't verb nouns, they remind me piously—as I think of Shakespeare's animal verbs (to shark, to spaniel) and his bodypart verbs (to nose, to fat) and of all the great verbs they have spawned (to beaver, weasel, ferret, buffalo; to stomach, belly, scalp, kneecap).
#* 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X, p8
#*: Nouns should never be verbed.
#* 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8
#*: In English, verbing nouns is okay
#* 2007 Apr 20, Dale Roberts, Rooting out bad language with a unicorn, in The Christian Science Monitor, p20
#*: I nominate for banishment the verbed nouns "dialogue" and "language," as in, "Let's dialogue on this project and then do some languaging about our proposal."
#* 2007 March: Erin McKean?, �Redefining the dictionary�, Technology Entertainment Design
#*: Any time you touch a word�you use it in a new context, you give it a new connotation, you verb it�you make the mobile move.
- context|used as a neutral, inspecific verb|often in|_|linguistics|_|and the social sciences To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb; for example, to kiss, to be, to think, to write, to disappear, to feel, to see, etc.
#* 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
#*: Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
#* 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," ...
#* 1998: James E. Tomberlin, Language, Mind and Ontology
#*: One case is where I, the reporter, want to report Madonna as verbing (I keep the verb neutral on purpose) Banderas.
#* 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.
Quotations
1986: Any noun can be verbed � Dan Davis, describing the creation of bad technical writing.
Verbing weirds language. � Calvin, from the comic strip w:Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin and Hobbes by w:Bill Watterson|Bill Watterson.
See also
copula
Category:Parts of speech
Category:Verbs|*
Romanian
Noun
ro-noun|gendn|plverbe
- verb#English|verb
Declension
ro-noun-n|pl=verbe
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