Translation
verb
Word origin
From Latin verbum, which simply meant a word. Roman grammarians used it for the word, the one that carries the action, and the narrow sense stuck. English kept both: verb from the grammar and verbal, verbatim and proverb from the wider meaning.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- verbum
- English cognates
- verb, verbal, adverb, proverb
Examples
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In Esperanto every verb follows the same rule.
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The teacher explained the verb in the sentence.
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Find the verb in this sentence.
is a grammarian's word, not an everyday one, so keep it clear of vorto: a is one class of word, and every is a but almost no is a . The two look related and are not, since comes from German Wort and this one from Latin verbum. In Esperanto the class is easy to spot because the ending gives it away: -i for the infinitive, -as, -is and -os for the three tenses, -us for the conditional and -u for the command. The rest of the metalanguage runs the same way, , , adverbo, and the machinery behind those endings is laid out in the word endings article and in verb tenses.
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