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  • A '''verb''' is a word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generall
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Verb]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • ...get its past participle, ''written''. So now we have our entire irregular verb summarised as: ''write, wrote, written''. ...compare ''go, went, gone'' in English, where ''went'' was once part of the verb ''wend''.
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  • ...th the gender of the subject. In other than the Indo-European languages, a verb form may even contain more information (i.e. in polysynthetic languages). [
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  • 1. transitive verb pay attention to something: to pay attention to something, especially so as 2. transitive verb control something: to remain aware of the need to control something
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  • ...umber is know as the [[case (grammar)|case]] of the verb. For example, the verb 'to be' has the singular case 'is' and plural case 'are'. ==Subject noun and verb number agreement==
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  • ...]]. (iii) (verb) To provide financial resources to pay for a project. (iv)(verb) To convert short-term debt into long-term debt.
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  • ...ental' and 'cognitive' characterize activities of the 'mind', originally a verb, Sanskrit, 'manyate', he thinks.
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  • ...get its past participle, ''written''. So now we have our entire irregular verb summarised as: ''write, wrote, written''. ...compare ''go, went, gone'' in English, where ''went'' was once part of the verb ''wend''.
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  • The arrangement of the [[subject]], [[verb]] and [[object]] within a [[sentence]].
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  • Grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than on
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  • ...nowledge of things taken from the report of others. The origin is from the verb ishmi, ‘I know’; and hence it is, that among the ancients several of th
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  • ...ation of headings, body text and other items that make up a printed page. (Verb) Also, the actual process of designing and putting in place those elements.
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  • ...a biological or physiological or group such as males or females; ''sex'' (verb) may include activities associated with mating or reproductive practices am
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  • {{r|Respect (transitive verb)}}
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  • ...cross the structures of languages or within a single language, e.g. if the verb precedes the object in a sentence, the language will have prepositions and
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  • ...homophones have the same spelling, they are also [[homonyms]]: the [[modal verb]] 'will' as in 'will they ever come?' sounds and also looks exactly like th ...have different pronunciations, and are [[heteronyms]], as for example the verb 'to tear', meaning 'to rip', and 'tear', as in 'tearful'.<ref>In the notati
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  • ====Subject-Verb-Object positioning==== ...types is determined by the basic order of [[subject (grammar)|subject]], [[verb]], and [[direct object]] in sentences:
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  • The three basic components of a [[sentence]], the subject, object, and verb, can appear in one of six orders: SVO, SOV, VSO, OVS, OSV, and VOS. The la
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  • ...rom the universal (cross-language) [[Semantic primes|semantic prime]], the verb 'think', indefinable by reference to words or concepts like 'mental' or 'co 'Mental' and 'cognitive' characterize activities of the 'mind', originally a verb, Sanskrit, 'manyate', he thinks.<ref name=mw3/>
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  • ...'parts of of speech.' The word ''fish'', for instance, can function as a verb, a noun, or an [[adjective]], depending on its syntactic position in a sent ...rrogative sentences (questions), English nearly always uses a SVO (Subject-verb-object) order.
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ...ad of ''tú'' as well as alternative second person conjugation of certain [[verb]]s. It is primarily used in [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]] and [[Guatemala]], h
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  • ...linguistics)|tense]] only has one [[conjugation|conjugated]] form of the [[verb]] for all persons. There is also no [[grammatical gender]], which means tha ...se', incorporating ''-ig-'' into the verb to redundantly indicate that the verb has an object. Similarly, since word order can also indicate the role a wor
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  • '''Receipt''' can also be used as a verb: ''to receipt'': to acknowledge receipt of something, to give a receipt, t
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • {{rpl|Place (verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ===As a verb===
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • * Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, et al.: ''Zahlen''. <br> Springer-Verlag. 3. verb. Aufl. 1992 (2., überarb. u. erg. Aufl. 1988) (1983) <br> ''Numbers''. Wit
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ...ami-''jinja'' (興玉神) or 'Frog Shrine',<ref>'[[Frog]]' (蛙 ''kaeru'') and the verb 'come back' (帰る ''kaeru'') sound very similar in [[Japanese language|Ja
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  • ...wed by the suffixes -''na''-, -''kat''- and -''ta'', which indicate it is verb-like negative adjective.</ref> -''na''- 'negative', and ''-kat-'' and ''-ta ...i]]'') are used for the most meaningful words such as most [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s; these take some time to learn. Two further ''[[kana]]'' scripts, ''[[hi
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  • ...d verb-final phrases, and if we find prepositions, we can predict that the verb will be initial. ...a statement that applies to all languages, such as ''All languages have [[verb]]s''.
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  • A '''verb''' is a word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generall
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • *the verb ''to curry'' means "to groom", clean, tan (as in leather) or beat. "to curr
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Verb]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • The term "Haredi" comes from a [[Hebrew]] verb meaning "to tremble."
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  • ...The name derives from the Greek adjective αριστος, meaning "best", and the verb κρατειν, meaning "to rule". Aristocracy was once one of the most com
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  • cf. ''noun'' '''énvelôpe''': ''verb'' '''envélop
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  • ...creation of something new. The word is used both as a [[noun]] and as a [[verb]]. The term is applied to many different fields of endeavour, from the manu
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  • ...class or ''[[lexical category]]'', distinct from other classes such as ''[[verb]]s'' and ''[[adjective]]s''. [[Word (language)|Words]] may be used as nouns ...e|English]], for instance, it is not obvious whether 'bank' is a noun or a verb until it is used in a larger [[phrase]] or sentence.
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  • ...ng quantified. (In context, ''kippu-o''<ref>''-o'' marks the object of the verb.</ref> is often dropped since it is clear from ''-mai'' what is being reque ...being marked for number. For example, the [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] verb ''tudni'' 'to know' changes depending on number, but also person: ''én tud
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  • The verb ''to curry'' means "to groom", clean, tan (as in leather) or beat. ''To cur
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  • ...'''Díd hê ûse to gô thére?''', however, '''ûse''' *yoôss is an infinitive verb, not a noun. (While no difference in pronunciation is distinguishable, bein
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  • *[[Verb]]
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  • {{r|Verb}}
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  • ''noun, verb'' '''státic
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  • ...matical aspect|aspect]] suffix, and a modal suffix. Consider the following verb: |+ Verb form '''ke:ka'''
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  • '''Mine''' (verb) is a military term for mounting a long term stealth attack on static enemi
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  • ...not use an inflectional future tense; this is expressed using the auxilary verb ''fog'' or verbal prefixes known as ''coverbs''.
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  • ...ription must refer to the sentence structure: move the initial auxiliary [[verb]] of the main [[clause]] ahead of the subject [[noun phrase]].
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  • ...imals and in such context is not slang. The word ''whelp'', taken from the verb ''to whelp'', to give birth to a pup, is also heard, especially for a newbo
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  • ...glish'') is the [[plant]] that provides [[pollen]] in [[pollination]]. The verb form '''to pollenize''', is to be the sire of the next plant generation.
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  • ...sition to nominalize actions, in this case to nominalize the action of the verb form of 'mind'&mdash;if you don't mind&mdash;which derives from a Proto-Ind ...ed by different aspects of the thinking process in different senses of the verb. Such verbal expressions as "mind what I tell you", "mind your own business
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  • ...rker.</ref> hele no<ref>Marker indicating that ''hele'' is an intransitive verb.</ref>'' (Pidgin Hawaiian)<ref>Siegel (2008: 82).</ref>
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  • '''ímplement''' ''noun'', '''ímplemént''' ''verb'' '''impréss''' ''verb
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  • ...nts throughout the world. "Confit" is derived from ''confire'', the French verb meaning here "to preserve by means of a gentle cooking in fat." Large piece
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  • ...ticiple are not formed regularly: '''to béar''' has the [[principal parts (verb)|principal parts]] '''béar, bŏre, bŏrn''', which means that there is no
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  • ...ct the vowel too, changing '''bāth''' ''noun'' (unvoiced) to '''bâthe''' ''verb'' (voiced). ...déath, bôth, bāth, pāth, dòth, bréath''' (noun, cf. voiced '''th''' in the verb '''brêathe'''); but the common preposition '''wíth''' has the voiced soun
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  • ...class or ''[[lexical category]]'', distinct from other classes such as ''[[verb]]''. English [[Word (language)|words]] may be used as nouns if they accept ...e|English]], for instance, it is not obvious whether 'bank' is a noun or a verb until it is used in a larger [[phrase]] or sentence of the [[language (gene
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  • ''verb'' '''impáct ''verb'' '''contráct
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  • ...ading ''SHIN'' in the noun ''shuushin'' 'retiring', but in the more common verb 寝る ''neru'' 'to lie down [go to sleep]', the Japanese reading ''ne'' oc ...ned'. However, as 取って, ''totte'' represents a form of the full, meaningful verb 'take', with its base form 取る ''toru''.</ref>
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  • ...e is typically missing [[inflection]]s such as the ''-s'' applied to the [[verb]] in [[sentence]]s like ''she dances''. These errors seem to resist correct
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  • ...iciple are not formed regularly: '''to béar''', has the [[principal parts (verb)|principal parts]] '''béar, bŏre, bŏrn'''/'''bŏrne''', which means that ...ple, people are still described as being '''behôlden''' to others, but the verb itself, '''behôld''', meaning 'look at', is nowadays only used poetically
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  • ...|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (encase [verb], in case, incase [obsolete variant of the verb encase]) ...|"itinerate"|itinerate|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (itinerant [adjective], itinerate [verb])
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  • ''verb, past'' '''léd''' = ''metal'' '''léad ''verb, present'' '''lêad
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  • '''rámpâge''' ''noun, verb '''rebél''' ''verb''
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  • * {{search link|"knifes"|knifes|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (knifes [verb]; knives [plural noun])
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  • ...), better known as the 'Frog Shrine',<ref>'[[Frog]]' (蛙 ''kaeru'') and the verb 'come back' (帰る ''kaeru'') sound very similar in [[Japanese language|Ja
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  • ...ress (linguistics)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora]] system
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  • ''verb'' '''mây''' = ''month'' '''Mây verb is two words: '''breâkaway
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  • '''gáses''' ''noun'' = '''gásses''' ''verb '''gél''' = '''jéll''' ''alternative spelling of verb'' = '''Géll'''
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  • ...tense]]). Adding these endings is called [[conjugation|conjugating]] for [[verb]]s and [[declension|declining]] for [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s.
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  • * In a sentence, however complex, only one finite verb occurs, normally at the end, preceded if necessary by a number of gerunds. * All of the positive verb forms have their corresponding negative counterparts, [[Negative Verbs]].
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  • ...in the original. The word "ship" is used in the fan fiction community as a verb - so one might say that a story "ships" two characters, meaning they have a
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  • ...s several grammatical and syntactical features, such as a highly irregular verb for "to be," a cadre of surviving "strong" verbs with different past and pr
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  • ''verb'' -zíz '''abûses ''singular verb'' '''líves
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  • '''fêed''' ''verb'' cf. '''féd''' ''past'', '''foôd''' ''noun '''fítted''' is the past tense of '''fít''', a regular verb
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  • ...ralian outback". Sometimes, one must resort to using a verb (rowing), but verb phrases (rowing in Cape Cod) are to be avoided. Avoid articles, adjectives
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  • ...word is first attested in literature around 1548 as a noun, and 1581 as a verb. It is related to the much older word 'blear' (c. 1300), describing an obje
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  • ...rasserie]]s. The origin of the name is uncertain and far from obvious: the verb ''croquer'' means to scrunch or crunch (or to sketch a drawing), and ''mons
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  • '''verbâtim ''noun, verb'' '''loôm
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  • ...ress (linguistics)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora (linguist
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  • '''lây''' ''table, egg, snooker'' is a verb in its own right, past and past participle both '''lâid'''; even native sp ...''' ''leave, leaf''—plural of '''lêaf''' ''tree'' and -'''s''' form of the verb '''lêave''' ''go
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  • ...377 Blue Book of Chess], 1847) but no longer (unless very informally); the verb 'to castle' is however still the only correct term used to refer to the dou
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  • '''perféct''' ''verb '''permít''' ''verb'', '''përmit''' ''noun
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  • ...[[grammar]] of Welsh differs from that of English in many respects: the [[verb]] is the first major constituent in the [[sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]
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  • ...riants. For example, in English, sentences often follow the "N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the English language is required to
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  • *A default subject-verb-object word order; ...e words to indicate [[tense (linguistics)|tense]], usually preceding the [[verb]];
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  • ...hang down" (and is also a [[cognate (linguistics)|cognate]] of the English verb ''depend''). ...', because the choice between these two forms determines which form of the verb is to be used. In contrast, however, no syntactic rule of English cares abo
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  • '''wíll''' ''verb'' = '''Wíll''' ''William'' '''wrêathe''' ''verb'' voiced '''th''', as in '''brêathe
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  • ...can]] from the original [[Greek]] ''thriambos'', a 'Hymn to Dionysus'. The verb is first recorded 1483.
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  • ...is a place where natural resources are extracted from the ground. To mine (verb) is to engage in processes of extraction from those places, and mining refe
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  • ...d [[preposition]]s, and certain verb features are marked using [[auxiliary verb]]s. ...the object is a pronoun, in which case the word order is [[Subject Object Verb]]. Some rare archaisms allow for different word orders.
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