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  • language in its use of two forms of the verb to be; however, all other Germanic languages also exhibit the two verbs be with similar semantics, and so the...
    37 KB (4,366 words) - 11:23, 22 June 2024
  • "to stand". From this root comes the present stem of the so-called "substantive verb" in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, tá and tha respectively, as well as...
    104 KB (3,971 words) - 13:53, 4 July 2024
  • Noun (redirect from Substantive)
    language has various linguistic and grammatical distinctions between nouns and verbs. Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from...
    23 KB (2,906 words) - 10:14, 12 June 2024
  • In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain...
    30 KB (3,135 words) - 17:29, 4 June 2024
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    Manx language (category Verb–subject–object languages)
    ways of expressing "to be" in Manx: with the substantive verb bee, and with the copula. The substantive verb is used when the predicate is an adjective...
    123 KB (8,725 words) - 13:34, 26 June 2024
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    principal verbs which inflection does in the classical languages, though even in those languages the substantive verb is sometimes used as a helping verb. . ...
    95 KB (10,551 words) - 12:30, 3 August 2024
  • characters. Proto-Indo-European verbs reflect a complex system of morphology, more complicated than the substantive, with verbs categorized according to their...
    82 KB (7,772 words) - 08:50, 2 June 2024
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    the past participle of verbs; ver- has an emphatic function, or it is used to turn a substantive or an adjective into a verb. In some cases, the prefix...
    21 KB (1,065 words) - 17:09, 3 May 2024
  • math sin! is good that "That is good!" Bi: Historically called the “substantiveverb, tha (the present indicative independent 3rd person singular form...
    51 KB (4,402 words) - 12:20, 23 March 2024
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    Enets language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
    substantivized verbs, adverbs and postpositions. The category of person with verbs is expressed by means of particular personal suffixes of the verb,...
    33 KB (2,686 words) - 19:07, 5 August 2024
  • Latin conjugation (redirect from Latin verb)
    of derived forms of a verb from basic forms, or principal parts. The second meaning of the word conjugation is a group of verbs which all have the same...
    89 KB (6,948 words) - 11:06, 29 July 2024
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    is predicated, without reference to time. Hence it is also called a substantive verb." Hilary of Poitiers: "Consider then the world, understand what is...
    52 KB (7,417 words) - 13:25, 23 June 2024
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    These suffixes can be combined with verbal forms, substantives, and paricles. Examples: ḤN (ḥan) = (verb:) 'he has shown favor' → ḤN’ (ḥannō) = 'he has shown...
    68 KB (4,636 words) - 15:10, 12 May 2024
  • Sesotho verbs are words in the language that signify the action or state of a substantive, and are brought into agreement with it using the subjectival...
    82 KB (7,243 words) - 23:07, 10 August 2023
  • any prepositions or articles. In Sesotho, locatives are inflected substantives and verb imperatives are treated as interjectives. The division of the four...
    71 KB (7,557 words) - 18:42, 15 April 2024
  • similar semantic behavior. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral...
    31 KB (3,600 words) - 20:51, 5 May 2024
  • today typically called nouns were then called substantive nouns (nōmen substantīvum). The terms noun substantive and noun adjective were formerly used in English...
    28 KB (3,612 words) - 16:58, 12 July 2024
  • there are nine parts of speech: nouns (pangngalan), pronouns (panghalíp), verbs (pandiwà), adverbs (pang-abay), adjectives (pang-urì), prepositions (pang-ukol)...
    66 KB (7,159 words) - 13:13, 22 July 2024
  • It is a pro-drop language. Verbs may be used without explicitly specifying the subject or the object with substantives (nouns or pronouns). Swahili...
    184 KB (21,040 words) - 17:00, 3 August 2024
  • ancient examples of them are attested for both perfective and imperfective verbs. Russian also places the accusative case between the dative and the instrumental...
    160 KB (8,239 words) - 15:23, 3 August 2024
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