linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector...

languages the term 'compound verb' refers to noun-plus-verb compounds, not to the verb–verb compounds discussed here. Parasynthetic compounds are formed by...

hyphenated: Compounds that contain affixes: "house-build(er)" and "single-mind(ed)(ness)", Adjective–adjective compounds: "blue-green", Verb–verb compounds: "freeze-dried"...

The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are...

into two categories of complex verbs, namely, conjunct verbs and compound verbs. (1) and (2) are examples of conjunct verbs since in (1) we find a noun kām...

One may add a light verb after a noun, adjective, preposition, or prepositional phrase to form a compound verb. Only the light verb (e.g. kardan) is conjugated;...

An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...

Welsh. Other tenses may use compound verbs in which the conjugated form of usually bod (to be) precedes the subject and other verb-nouns come after the subject...

elected for every verb). Another common usage is to form compound words, specifically compound nouns and compound verbs. As for compound nouns, the conjunctive...

In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...

traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...

causative verb stem Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called...

from stiglus Contracted from ūnulus Language portal Hybrid word Classical compound Latin Latin influence in English List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin...

compound constructions that use more than one verb. These include one for each simple tense with the addition of avoir or être as an auxiliary verb....

(サ変). This type applies to the modern verb suru (する), its classical equivalent su (す), and all their derived compounds, such as aisuru (愛する), hassuru (発する)...

in modern Turkish), is compound verbs. This consists of adding a Persian or Arabic active or passive participle to a neuter verb, to do (ایتمك etmek) or...

past verb form, which sometimes (but not always) expresses perfective aspect. The case of German is similar: the Präteritum is the simple (non-compound) past...

Pashto verbs are of four categories: simple verbs, prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs. Prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs are...

a compound verb just like the passive voice of regular verbs (factus sum 'I have been done'). Old Irish has a substantial number of deponent verbs, some...

many are used as parts of compound words (kango). The technique in which native scripts are used to inflect adjectives or verbs was first used by Korean...

A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear...

used to make the passive of transitive verbs, by adding different parts of the verb šodan 'to become'. Compound verbs, such as bāz kardan 'to open' (lit....

intransitive verb, or may be regarded as comprising two single lexical words. However, it does in fact function as a compound of the verb tiào (跳; 'to...

one or more dependent clauses is called compound-complex or complex-compound. In addition to a subject and a verb, dependent clauses contain a subordinating...

used for simple, singular words, including most verbs, while on'yomi readings are used for compound, technical words. Kun'yomi are characterized by the...

perfective verbs have past and "future tenses", while imperfective verbs have past, present and "future", the imperfective "future" being a compound tense...

An anticausative verb (abbreviated ANTIC) is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication...

leibōn "shedding". In later Greek, these would combine to form the compound verb καταλείβων kataleibōn "shedding (in a downwards direction)". Tmesis...

forms, which can enter into a wide variety of compound tense structures (consisting of a non-finite verb form combined with a finite auxiliary) and are...

of the verb. There is also a compound future imperfective form consisting of the future of "to be" plus the infinitive of the imperfective verb. The conditional...