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Verb

A verb is a word that generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive.

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Agreement

Types

Valency

Tense, aspect, and modality

Voice

Non-finite forms

Verbs in various languages

Grammar

Other

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Verb

Nodes137
Edges136
Triples151
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014599
Components1

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Verb

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related to Valency · 17
Verb → Avalent, Chris1, Chris2, Ditransitive, English, For, He, Intransitive, John, Mandarin Chinese, Pat1, Pat2, She, The, Transitive, Verbs, Zero
related to External links · 16
Verb → Analysis, Analyzer Conjugation, Coniugator, Downloadable, El, English Verb ConjugationItalian Verbs, Irregular Verbs, It, Media, Neologisms, Regular, Spanish, Verbs, Wikimedia Commons The, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, Wiktionarywww
related to Agreement · 14
Verb → Basque, English, European, Georgian, In, Japanese, Latin, On, Polish, Romance, SOV, TAM, The, With
related to Impersonal and objective verbs · 14
Verb → As, English, French, German, Impersonal, In, In English, Intransitive, It, Mandarin, Spanish, Such, TAM, Weather
related to Copular verbs · 11
Verb → Copulae, Copular, English, For, Her, His, Josh, My, The, These, They
related to Further reading · 10
Verb → English, Gideon, Goldenberg, Hebrew, Hebrew Verb, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, On Verbal Structure, Semitic Linguistics, Studies
related to Valency marking · 8
Verb → Australia, English, For, In, In Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Some, TAM, Verbs
related to Mood and modality · 7
Verb → All, Be, French, If, It, Modality, You
related to Non-finite forms · 7
Verb → English, In, Indo-European, Most, Other, The, This
related to Ditransitive verbs · 6
Verb → Ditransitive, For, Indirect, The, Vg, When

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Important terminology

verbs subject languages english object valency example tense transitive action aspect also past intransitive number state present noun called may

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Verbis aword that generally conveys an action0.90text
negationinstance ofas well as other categories0.80text
but shows absolutely no agreement with the subjectinstance ofas well as other categories0.80text
Mandarin Chineseinstance ofin some languages0.80text
weather verbs like snowinstance ofin some languages0.80text
Englishinstance ofIn non-valency marking languages0.80text
a transitive verb can often drop its objectinstance ofIn non-valency marking languages0.80text
become intransitiveinstance ofIn non-valency marking languages0.80text
Verbrelated to AgreementIn0.60section
Verbrelated to AgreementWith0.60section
Verbrelated to AgreementEnglish0.60section
Verbrelated to AgreementThe0.60section

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