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...

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

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;...

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...

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...

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

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...

two-kanji compounds are denominalized by 〜する suru verbs, pronunciation or conjugations may be irregular in the cases where single-kanji suru verbs behave...

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...

-ebil is one of several verbs that can be compounded to enhance meaning. See Auxiliary verbs. The characteristics with which verb-bases are formed from...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

clauses... datorren astean 'next week' A compound verb form (a verb in a compound tense or a compound verb construction) may be clause-initial in cases...

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....

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...

verbs are only inflected for tense and/or mood. Verb stems form the nucleus of a verb, have several forms: simple, complex, or compound. Simple verb stems...

independent feature in Romanian verbs, although it does manifest itself clearly in the contrast between the imperfect and the compound perfect tenses as well as...

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...

auxiliary verbs in French: avoir (to have) and être (to be), used to conjugate compound tenses according to these rules: Transitive verbs (direct or...

of derived forms of a verb from basic forms, or principal parts. The second meaning of the word conjugation is a group of verbs which all have the same...