HyperDic: auxiliary_verb

English > 1 sense of the expression auxiliary verb:
NOUNcommunicationauxiliary verba verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with
English > auxiliary verb: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with.
Narrowermodal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary, modal verb, modalAn auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality
BroaderverbThe word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
Spanishverbo auxiliar
Catalanverb auxiliar

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