Verb

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Transitive verb 1.4.1 Quotations 1.5 See also 2 German 2.1 Noun

English

Etymology

From old French verbe , from Latin verbum word, from Indo-European *wer-

Pronunciation

• IPA : /vɜː(r)b/
• SAMPA : /v3:(r)b/

Noun

verb, plural verbs

1. a word that indicates an action or a state; in a sentence, a verb forms part of the predicate of the sentence

Related terms

• coverb
• preverb
• verbal
• auxiliary verb
• defective verb
• ditransitive verb
• modal verb
• impersonal verb
• intransitive verb
• irregular verb
• phrasal verb
• serial verb
• stative verb
• transitive verb

Translations

Arabic: فعل Bulgarian: глагол m (2) Catalan: verb Chinese: 动词 Dutch: werkwoord n Estonian: tegusõna , verb Finnish: verbi French: verbe m German: Zeitwort n, Verb n, Verbum n Greek, Ancient: ῥῆμα (rhēma) n Hebrew: פועל (Po'al) ige Icelandic: sagnorð Indonesian: kata kerja Interlingua: verbo Italian: verbo

Japanese: 動詞 (どうし , dōshi) Latin: verbum n verb Polish: czasownik m Portuguese: verbo m Romanian: verb n Russian: глагол Spanish: verbo Swedish: verb

Transitive verb

1. (colloquial) use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

Quotations

• 1986: Any noun can be verbed - Dan Davis, describing the creation of bad technical writing.
• Verbing weirds language. - Calvin, from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

See also

• copula

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German

Noun

Verb n (plural Verben )

1. verb