• Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many...
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  • English sit). As the Romance languages developed over time, the three separate Latin verbs became just one or two verbs in the Romance languages. The reduction...
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    were many cases of verbs merging as complex subtleties[clarification needed] in Latin were reduced to simplified verbs in Romance. A classic example of...
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  • some other Romance languages, does not have a grammatically distinct class of modal auxiliary verbs and expresses modality using lexical verbs followed...
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  • (through Vulgar Latin). Unlike its nouns, Romanian verbs behave in a similar way to those of other Romance languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian...
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  • such verbs are also more broadly referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in the grammar of the Romance languages. Other kinds of pronominal verbs are...
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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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    Maltese language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
    incorporates Romance verbs and adds Maltese suffixes and prefixes to them, for example; iddeċidejna "we decided" ← (i)ddeċieda "decide", a Romance verb + -ejna...
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  • copula is generally used to refer to such principal verbs, it may also be used for a wider group of verbs with similar potential functions (like become, get...
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  • verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; the verbs in...
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    Spanish verbs are a complex area of Spanish grammar, with many combinations of tenses, aspects and moods (up to fifty conjugated forms per verb). Although...
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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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    the term "phrasal verb" primarily to verbs with particles in order to distinguish phrasal verbs from verb phrases composed of a verb and a collocated preposition...
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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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  • distinguishes intransitive verbs from transitive verbs, which entail one or more objects. Additionally, intransitive verbs are typically considered within...
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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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  • plural; likewise, the mandatory subject of verbs helps identify the verb ceint. In more conservative Romance languages, neither articles nor subject pronouns...
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  • finite intransitive verb can function as the root of an independent clause. Finite verbs are distinguished from non-finite verbs such as infinitives,...
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  • present in Latin and Ancient Greek, and consequently some Romance languages. Not all verbs with inchoative suffixes have retained their inceptive meaning...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Portuguese verbs display a high degree of inflection. A typical regular verb has over fifty different forms, expressing up to six different grammatical...
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  • the only open verb class; new verbs incorporated into the language are likely to follow this conjugation model. The only irregular verbs in this class...
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  • out", "fall down"), and its verbs usually show manner of motion; thus, English is a satellite-framed language. English verbs that are exceptions are mostly...
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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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    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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  • Old French (section Verbs)
    developments in Gallo-Romance and Proto-French led to complex alternations in the majority of commonly-used verbs. For example, the OF verb laver "to wash"...
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