Infinitive Sentence Examples

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  • B is replaced by the surd pat the end of a word (trobar in the infinitive, but trop in the present tense); so also in the interiOr of a word when it precedes a consonant (supvensr, s u b v e n i re, sopte, s u b t 0).

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  • It does not follow the same rules as the English infinitive.

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  • The infinitive is not found; as in Greek, Rumanian and Bulgarian, it is replaced by the subjunctive with a particle.

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  • The verb infinitive appears in large print at the right or left corner of the page along with the English translation.

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  • The infinitive often functions as a verbal noun, and as such can be the complement of another verb. infix see affix.

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  • Do you need an ax to split an infinitive?

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  • All verbs have an infinitive or root, (to come, to sell ), from which all variations spring.

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  • Now, who can explain the split infinitive to us?

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  • After the aorist infinitive clause " Before Abraham was ", properly the perfect clause and tense should follow but does not.

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  • There are three regular conjugations, distinguished (as in Latin) according to the termination of the present infinitive in a, e or i; e.g.

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  • The second form of the present infinitive (arare, credere, dormire) is used as a noun.

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  • It is never preserved except when protected by the non-etymological I already spoken of (lie girt or llegt, but never liegsn); the r reappears, nevertheless, whenever the infinitive is followed by a pronoun (donarme, d-irho).

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  • As in Provenal, the past participle of a large ntimber of verbs of the 2nd and 3rd conjugations is formed, not from the infinitive, but from the perfect (pogut, volgut, tingut suggest the perfects poch, volch, tinch, and not the infinitives poder, voler, tenir).

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