Infinitive (abbreviated INF) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many...

A split infinitive is a grammatical construction in which an adverb or adverbial phrase separates the "to" and "infinitive" constituents of what was traditionally...

In grammar, accusative and infinitive (also Accusativus cum infinitivo or accusative plus infinitive, frequently abbreviated ACI or A+I) is the name for...

Germanic verb. The bare infinitive consists of the root and the suffix -en. With verbs whose roots end in el or er, the e of the infinitive suffix is dropped...

The Ancient Greek infinitive is a non-finite verb form, sometimes called a verb mood, with no endings for person or number, but it is (unlike in Modern...

trigger the weak grade in the infinitive stem. The contracted infinitive ending -eta/-etä have -itse/-itsi verbs take the infinitive stem -ita/itä. These contracted...

verb's action noun, or to the part of the infinitive following the infinitival prefix (also called the infinitival construct). In Hungarian, it practically...

Finnish there are five infinitive forms, with past and present participles for both active and passive voices. First infinitive is the dictionary form...

of an independent clause. In English, non-finite verb forms include infinitives, participles and gerunds. Non-finite verb forms in some other languages...

singular -ās, and infinitive -āre are said to belong to the 1st conjugation, those with 1st singular -eō, 2nd singular -ēs and infinitive -ēre belong to...

two infinitives: the infinitive construct (שם הפועל shem hapoal or מקור נסמך) and the rarely used infinitive absolute (מקור מוחלט). The infinitive construct...

(infinitive sessions) is the fourth studio album by the Italian experimental rock band Starfuckers, released in 2002. "Blues Off" "Drive On" "Off Blues"...

Twin Infinitives is the second studio album by Royal Trux. It was released as a double LP in 1990 by Drag City, then reissued on CD and cassette in 1994...

Greek does share with the other languages (loss of dative, replacement of infinitive by subjunctive constructions, object clitics, formation of future with...

are peculiar to Portuguese within the Romance languages: The personal infinitive, a non-finite form which does not show tense, but is inflected for person...

French, for example, regular verbs can be deduced from a single form, the infinitive, and irregular verbs are too random to be systematized under fixed parts...

usually use the accusative and infinitive construction. In this the main verb of the quoted sentence is changed to an infinitive, and its subject to the accusative...

obligation, necessity, possibility. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs...

addition, there are several non-finite forms: Long infinitive in -ti/-či (dolgi nedoločnik) and short infinitive in -t/-č (kratki nedoločnik), the use of the...

base form or plain form (go, write, climb), which has several uses—as an infinitive, imperative, present subjunctive, and present indicative except in the...

into just one or two appears to have occurred as follows: The irregular infinitive esse was remodeled into *essere. *essere and sedēre forms sounded similar...

only three tenses (present, aorist, and perfect). The optative mood, infinitives and participles are found in four tenses (present, aorist, perfect, and...

The Infinitive of Go is a 1980 science fiction novel by British writer John Brunner. The novel revolves around a teleportation technology which is being...

subjects. Auxiliary verbs such as have and be are paired with verbs in the infinitive, past, or progressive forms. They form complex tenses, aspects, and moods...

usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive. Catalan has two types of article, definite and indefinite. They are declined...

languages, indirect discourse is expressed using a content clause or infinitival. When an instance of indirect discourse reports an earlier question,...

of purpose. A second usage is in combination with the future passive infinitive. In this second usage it indicates fate; for example "occisum iri" means...

marked form, but there are several exceptions such as the use of the infinitive for verbs in some languages. For English, the citation form of a noun...

verb in the infinitive: -ando for verbs whose infinitive ends in -are (parlare/parlando, mangiare/mangiando) or -endo if the infinitive ends in -ere...

Participles in Latin have three tenses (present, perfect, and future). The infinitive has two main tenses (present and perfect) as well as a number of periphrastic...