English > verb: 2 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence. |
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| Member of | conjugation | The inflection of verbs |
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| Part of | verb | A content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence |
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| Narrower | auxiliary verb | A verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with |
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| infinitive | The uninflected form of the verb |
| intransitive verb, intransitive verb form, intransitive | A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object |
| participle, participial | A non-finite form of the verb |
| phrasal verb | An English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit |
| transitive verb, transitive verb form, transitive | A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical |
| Broader | major form class | Any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
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| Spanish | verbo |
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| Catalan | verb |
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| Adjectives | verbal | of or relating to or formed from a verb |
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| Verbs | verbify | make into a verb |
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