• indicated, Tigrinya verbs in this article are given in the usual citation form, the third person singular masculine perfect. A Tigrinya verb root consists...
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    phrasal verbs, and in using a word order that places the main verb last instead of first in the sentence, there is a strong influence of Geʽez on Tigrinya literature...
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  • places within the grammar of the languages as well. Subject–verb agreement All Tigrinya verbs agree with their subjects; that is, the person, number, and...
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  • Romanian verbs Sanskrit verbs Sesotho verbs Slovene verbs Spanish verbs Tigrinya verbs Auxiliary verb Grammar Grammatical aspect Grammatical mood Grammatical...
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  • inflected) verb is moved to the second position. Simple verbs look like SVO, non-finite verbs (participles, infinitives) and compound verbs follow this...
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  • strong; the majority are weak verbs, which form the past tense by means of a dental suffix. In modern English, strong verbs include sing (present I sing...
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    Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are...
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    Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to...
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    Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known...
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  • stem. This participle is active in intransitive verbs, e.g. rafte 'gone', but passive in transitive verbs, e.g. nevešte 'written (by someone)'. As well...
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    is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European...
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  • 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...
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    verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12  Although the auxiliary verbs of...
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  • typology, object–verb–subject (OVS) or object–verb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object–verb–subject in unmarked...
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  • Slovene verbs are classified based on their aspect: Perfective (dovršni) verbs, which represent a completed action. Imperfective (nedovršni) verbs, which...
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  • active voice and another for the middle voice. Verbs can be conjugated in either voice, although some verbs only show one or the other. Originally the active...
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  • in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; the verbs in this conjugation, which together...
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  • characters. Proto-Indo-European verbs reflect a complex system of morphology, more complicated than the substantive, with verbs categorized according to their...
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  • of these languages. There is a strong tendency, as in English, for main verbs to be preceded by auxiliaries: I am thinking. He should reconsider. An example...
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  • their verbs into three conjugations (coniugationes verbis accidunt tres: prima, secunda, tertia "there are three different conjugations for verbs: the...
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    be lexically verbs, and some of them can also function as full verbs. When a coverb phrase appears in a sentence together with a main verb phrase, the...
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  • most verbs fall into one of these categories. Suppletive verbs are completely irregular, being composed of parts of more than one Indo-European verb. There...
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  • Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irregular...
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  • Verbs in the Korean language come in last place in a clause. Verbs are the most complex part of speech, and a properly conjugated verb may stand on its...
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  • Arabic verbs (فِعْل fiʿl; pl. أَفْعَال afʿāl), like the verbs in other Semitic languages, and the entire vocabulary in those languages, are based on a...
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  • object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) word order is a structure where the object of a sentence precedes both the subject and the verb. Although...
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  • language has two main types of verbs which are referred to as pentagrade verbs (五段動詞, godan-dōshi) and monograde verbs (一段動詞, ichidan-dōshi). Categories...
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  • grammar, the set of inflected forms of a French verb is called the verb's conjugation. French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These...
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  • the present tense of imperfective verbs and the future tense of perfective verbs. The first conjugation is used in verb stems ending in: a consonant, -у...
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  • with verb stems to produce a wide range of finite verb forms. Third-person verbs (here the 'person' again refers to the subject in intransitive verbs but...
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