Verb types

An ambitransitive verb is a verb that can be used both as intransitive or as transitive without requiring a morphological change. That is, the same verb form may or may not require a direct object. Examples of ambitransitive verbs, in English, are read, break, understand, and many others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ambitransitive verb"

An anticausative verb is a intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication of the cause of the event. The single argument of the anticausative verb (its subject) is a patient, that is, an experiencer. One can assume that there is a cause or an agent of causation, but the syntactic structure of the anticausative makes it unnatural or impossible to refer to it directly. Examples of anticausative verbs are break, sink, move, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anticausative verb"

The verbal morphology of Armenian is fairly simple in theory, but is complicated by the existence of two main dialects, Eastern and Western. The following sketch will be a comparative look at both dialects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Armenian verbs"

In linguistics, an auxiliary or helping verb is a verb whose function it is to give further semantic information about the main or full verb which follows it. In English, the extra meaning an auxiliary verb imparts alters the basic form of the main verb to have one or more of the following functions: passive, progressive, perfective, modal, or dummy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Auxiliary verb"

Captitive verbs indicate catching and hunting of the specific animal or other target, e.g. English to fish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Captitive verb"

There are two different forms of verbs in the Chinese language. The static, indicating state, and the dynamic, indicating action. The sentence changes with the different forms of verbs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinese verbs"

In linguistics, a control verb is a verb with an argument that is a verb and one or more arguments that are nouns, such that one of the noun arguments is semantically an argument both of the control verb and of the verb argument. For example, in "He tried to do that," tried is a control verb, where its subject he is semantically the subject both of tried and of to do. ...more on Wikipedia about "Control verb" There's a bit of www.shortopedia.com in all of us.

The word copula originates from the Latin noun for a "link or tie" that connects two different things. In linguistics, a copula is a word that is used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement or an adverbial). Though it might not itself express any action or condition, it serves to equate (or associate) the subject with the predicate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Copula"

A defective verb is a verb with an incomplete conjugation. Defective verbs cannot be conjugated in certain tenses or moods. ...more on Wikipedia about "Defective verb"

A deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deponent verb"

In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects. According to certain linguistics considerations, these objects may be called direct and indirect, or primary and secondary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ditransitive verb"

A dynamic verb is a verb that shows continued or progressive action on the part of the subject. The opposite of stative verb. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dynamic verb"

English has a large number of irregular verbs. Almost all irregular English verbs do not conform to standard methods of forming past participles and/or past tenses. With these verbs other conjunctions and inflections — such as the present 3rd person singular -s or -es, and present participle -ing — broadly follow the same rules of spelling as the regular verbs. ...more on Wikipedia about "English irregular verbs"

*The infinitive, in English, is one of two verbal nouns: To write is to learn. ...more on Wikipedia about "English verbs"

An ergative verb is a special kind of verb which allows the object in a transitive clause to become the subject in an intransitive clause. An example in English is the verb "to open": John opened the door becomes The door opened. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ergative verb"

A finite verb is a verb that is inflected for person and for tense according to the rules and categories of the languages it occurs in. Finite verbs can form independent clauses, which can stand by their own as complete sentences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Finite verb"

In grammar, a frequentative form of a word is one which indicates repeated action. The frequentative form can be considered a separate, but not completely independent word, called a frequentative. English frequentative is no longer productive, but in some languages, such as Finnish, it is. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frequentative"

The Germanic verb system lends itself to both synchronic and diachronic comparative analysis. This overview article is intended to lead into a series of specialist articles discussing historical aspects of these verbs, showing how they developed out of PIE, and how they came to have their present diversity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Germanic verb"

In Germanic languages, weak verbs are those verbs that form their preterites and past participles by means of a dental suffix, an inflection that contains a /t/ or /d/ sound. (For comparative purposes we may refer to this generally as a dental, although in some of the languages, including English, /t/ and /d/ are alevolar rather than dental consonants.) For example: ...more on Wikipedia about "Germanic weak verb"

An impersonal verb is a verb that cannot take a true subject, because it does not represent an action, occurrence, or state-of-being of any specific person, place, or thing. Verbs indicating weather, such as to rain, are often impersonal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Impersonal verb"

An inchoative verb, sometimes called an "inceptive" verb, shows a process of beginning or becoming. Productive inchoative infixes exist in several languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek, and consequently some Romance languages. Not all verbs with inchoative infixes have retained their inceptive meaning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inchoative verb"

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An intransitive verb is a verb that has only one argument, that is, a verb with valency equal to one. In more familiar terms, an intransitive verb has a subject but does not have an object. For example, in English, the verbs sleep, die, and run, are intransitive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Intransitive verb"

In contrast to regular verbs, irregular verbs are those verbs that fall outside the standard patterns of conjugation in the languages in which they occur. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irregular verb"

*This is the first of two pages. See also Latin verbs (L to Z) ...more on Wikipedia about "Latin verbs (A to K)"

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