Verb Sentence Examples

Never let a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

The subject of the sentence precedes the verb and the object follows it.

Paul evidently plays on the verb, krino, diakrino, katakrino (Kplvw, S&aKplvw, KaraKpivw).

The verb "to gouge" is used in the sense of scooping or forcing out.

It was certainly by Aristotle, because it contained the triple grammatical division of words into noun, verb and conjunction, which the history of grammar recognized as his discovery.

This assumption that Yahweh is derived from the verb "to be," as seems to be implied in Exod.

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

In the sense of "revere" or "respect," the verb "to worship" occurs in the English Prayer-book, in the phrase "with my body I thee worship" in the Marriage Service.

In negative answers na precedes the verb.

The verb "to quill" is to fold lace, muslin or other light material into narrow flutes or pleats; when so pleated the material is called "quilling."

In the Ebon language, however, the tenses are sometimes marked; but in that the simple form of the verb is frequently given.

When a noun comes first, it is followed by a relative pronoun, thus, Dafydd a brynodd lyfr yno, which really means " (it is) David who bought a book there," and is never used in any other sense in the spoken language, though in literary Welsh it is used rhetorically for the simple statement which is properly expressed by putting the verb first.

Assume that the parser doesn't allow anything to precede the verb.

Students are tested on verb endings of regular and irregular verbs.

In declarative sentences, verb reduplication is associated with aspect which is assumed to have a strong feature.

In other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.

The adverb usually follows the verb.

This reconstruction, which merges subject and predicate in one expression, in order to combine it with the verb of existence, is repeated in similar proposals of recent English logicians.

He had abandoned for the most part - the Platonic sense of the corresponding verb, viz.

The adducing of a witness for which he uses the verb is not an idea that covers all the uses.

The later "c-w-µ€v was at first a solecism, an attempt to conjugate a " verb in µ.c " like the " verbs in w."

What the grammarians called " tmesis," the separation of the preposition from the verb with which it is compounded, is peculiar to Homer.

The verb has four tenses in the indicative, one in the subjunctive, and one in the imperative.

The regular verb caraf, " I love," is conjugated thus Indicative-Pres.

As in other languages the verb " to be " and its compounds are irregular; the number of other irregular verbs is comparatively small.

The verb may be preceded by an affirmative, a negative, or an interrogative particle.

In a simple interrogative sentence the introductory particle before the verb is a, and the positive answer consists in a repetition of the verb; a ddaw Dafydd ?

It is true that, as a matter of fact, the earliest uses of the word (the verb /xXoa04Eiv occurs in Herodotus and Thucydides) imply the idea of the pursuit of knowledge; but the distinction between the aogios, or wise man, and the 4nXoaoa50s, or lover of wisdom, appears first in the Platonic writings, and lends itself naturally to the so-called Socratic irony.

In Syriac the verb means "to make firm," and is the direct source of the Gr.

In the inflexion of the verb there is nothing special to note, except some instances of 2nd pers.

This dictionary contains 766 Spanish verbs, with all major regular and irregular verb conjugations in 13 tenses and moods.

In Hindi, the agreement feature provides an extra retrieval cue at the verb.

When the OED adds the verb form of ' cargo cult ' to its corpus, remember where you read that first.

Ice verb (ice, icing, iced) - To make something icy; to become icy.

It is fair to say that Portuguese grammar is more complex than English, mainly due to verb inflection.

It includes a survey of grammar, with tables for verb conjugations and noun inflections.

And then 3 vi (verb intransitive) meaning verbs which do not take a direct object.

They were asked to use the present participle of the verb.

It also has three participles which help to explain the main verb.

The main part is the ' third part ' of a verb, which is properly called the past participle.

The suffix -n is given to isolated nominal uses of adjectives, or to nominal uses of verb participles.

It is from the verb " sever " but it is past, passive, and adjectival, i.e. a perfective passive participle.

The verb " vouloir " is also use to give a command and still remain polite.

You'll learn about a new form of the verb called the subjunctive, some useful motoring terms and about exchanging currencies.

You can't add two suffixes to the same verb to create a different noun.

These elements are verb suffixes, Prefixes, auxiliary verbs and roots.

In compound tenses we need to include the direct object between the subject and the auxiliary verb.

Time lines are also a great way of conveying the meaning of different verb tenses.

Less garden pathing for obligatorily transitive verbs was found only later, e.g. on the main verb.

Further down you will find 2 vt (verb transitive) meaning verbs which take a direct object, with examples of usage.

The verb presents a variety of conjugations, expressing nearly all the moods and tenses of the Greek.

It is a language of the isolating class, in which every word is a monosyllable, and may be employed either as a noun or as a verb according to its context and its position in a sentence.

The main grammatical distinction between Syriac and all the west Aramaic dialects is that in Syriac the 3rd person of the imperfect (singular and plural) of the verb begins with n, but in west Aramaic, as in the other Semitic languages, it begins with y.

The errors of common opinion arise to a great extent from the ambiguous use of the verb "to be," which may imply existence or be merely the copula which connects subject and predicate.

In .other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.

The derivation of the word has been obscured by a connexion in sense with the verb "cow," to instil fear into, which is derived from old Norse kuga, a word of similar meaning, and with the verb "cower," to crouch, which is also Scandinavian in origin.'

Venus, like other names ending in us, ought to have genitive Veni, but, as this might be taken for a verb, it has Veneris.

To the same century we may assign the grammarian Theodosius of Alexandria, who, instead of confining himself (like Dionysius Thrax) to the tenses of Tb rTW in actual use, was the first to set forth all the imaginary aorists and futures of that verb, which have thence descended through the Byzantine age to the grammars of the Renaissance and of modern Europe.

The first part of the work confines itself strictly to noun and verb, or the form of proposition called secundi adjacentis.

While this phrase means that you still love someone (very much), you may also want to say that you will love someone forever, which requires an additional expression, or a different verb conjugation.

The full title is ilm al jebr wa'l-mugabala, which contains the ideas of restitution and comparison, or opposition and comparison, or resolution and equation, jebr being derived from the verb jabara, to reunite, and mugabala, from gabala, to make equal.

Similarly in the case of the sign MU, which, besides signifying " name " as above pointed out, is also the Sumerian word for " give," and therefore may be read iddin, " he gave," from nadanu, or may be read nadin, " giver "; and when, as actually happens, a name occurs in which the first element is the name of a deity followed by MU-MU, a new element of doubt is introduced through the uncertainty whether the first MU is to be taken as a form of the verb nadanu and the second as the noun shumu, " name," or vice versa.

As in Bantu, the verb presents a multiplicity of forms, including one present, three past and future tenses, with personal endings complete, passive, interrogative, conditional, elective, negative and other forms, each with its proper participial inflexions.

When an action is expressed in the past the word which forms with the verb the past tense is divided from the verb itself by the object.

Afterwards (chap. so) proceeding to the opposition of propositions, he adds the form called tertii adjacentis, in a passage which is the first appearance, or rather adumbration, of the verb of being as a copula.

The words introducing this form (6Tav bE TO '&TL Tptrov irpoo-KaTnyopijTac, chap. so, s 9 b s 9), which are the origin of the phrase tertii adjacentis, disengage the verb of being (g un) partially but not entirely, because they still treat it as an extra part of the predicate, and not as a distinct copula.

The word is the English representative of the substantive common to Teutonic languages, as "dead" is of the adjective, and "die" of the verb; the ultimate origin is the pre-Teutonic verbal stem dau-; cf.

The latter is an extensive monograph on the verb in Egyptian and Coptic by a brilliant and laborious philologist.

The typical Coptic root thus became biliteral rather than triliteral, and the verb, by means of periphrases, developed tenses of remarkable precision.

It is probable that the verb had a special form denoting condition, as in Arabic. There was a causative form prefixing t, and ti-aces of forms resembling Piel and Niphal are observed.

An indefinite article has been formed, and in the conjugation of the verb a great simplicity sets in.

The sophist Protagoras had distinguished various kinds of sentences, and Plato had divided the sentence into noun and verb, signifying a thing and the action of a thing.

All these points about speech, eloquence and argument between man and man were absorbed into Aristotle's theory of reasoning, and in particular the grammar of the sentence consisting of noun and verb caused the logic of the proposition consisting of subject and predicate.

Without realizing their debt to tradition, Herbart, Mill and recently Sigwart, have repeated Aristotle's separation of the copula from the verb of existence, as if it were a modern discovery that " is " is not the same as " exists."

They have the chief characteristics of the Polynesian, with Malay affinities, and peculiarities such as the use of suffixes and inseparable pronouns and, as in Tagal, of the infix to denote changes in the verb; in the west groups there is a tendency to closed syllables and double consonants, and a use of the palatals ch, j, sh, the dental th, and s (the last perhaps only in foreign words), which is alien to the Polynesian.

If the verb is aorist the answer is do for all verbs.

A relative pronoun immediately precedes its verb and can only be separated from it by an infixed pronoun, thus Dafydd a'i prynodd, " (it is) David who bought it," yno y'm gweli, " (it is) there that thou wilt see me."

The verb does not agree with its subject unless the latter is a personal pronoun; when the subject is a noun the verb is put in the third person singular; thus carant, " they love," can take a pronominal subject - carant hwy, " they love "; but " the men love " is car y dynion (not carant y dynion, which can only mean " they love the men ").

In relative clauses the verb is sometimes made to agree; but in the oldest poetry we generally find the singular verb, as in the oft-repeated Gododin phrase Grvyr a aeth Gatraeth, " men who went (to) Catraeth " (not Gwyr a aethant).

Derived from the verb ma, " to stretch out," her name denoted the ideas of right and rule, and covered the notions of order, law, justice and truth, which remained steadfast and unalterable.

The verb displays a like abundance of trf mary forms with Sanskrit, but the conjugation by periphrasis lit only slightly developed.

In the verb ripound forms predominate.

For the passive voice, a fi is used, with the past participle of the required verb.

The verb "to drain," with its substantives "drain" and "drainage," represents the 0.

The name is a bad one, since it does not correspond with any ordinary meaning of the verb.

By the mythologists of Cicero's time the name was connected with the verb furere and the noun feria, which in the plural (not being used in the singular in this sense) was accepted as the equivalent of the Greek Erinyes.

The verb is used for the creaming or frothing of liquids and of the suffusing of the skin with blood.

Almost any word may be made into a verb by using with it a verbal particle.

The verb "to dress" has various applications which can be deduced from its original meaning.

The Hebrew probably signifies literally "expanse," and is thus used of the expanse or vault of the sky, the verb from which it is derived meaning "to beat out."

The verb "to fathom," i.e.

The verb e s s e r a has been mixed, not as in the other Romance languages with s t a r a, but with s e d e r e, as is proved by older forms seer, siedes, sieden, seyendo, obviously derived from s e d e r e, and which have in the texts sometimes the meaning of to be seated, sometimes that of to be, and sometimes both.

The verb ser gives yes (sometimes yeres) in the 2nd pers.

But Matarigvan was feigned to have brought Agni, fire, and "the fetching of the god was designated by the same verb mathnami as the proper earthly boring" of the firestick.

The word "be" is an imperative verb.

An adverb may precede the verb.

Does the verb govern the accusative or the dative?

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

This change allowed us to isolate the implicit causality of the verb itself from the contribution of the connective.

Italian Verbs A Mac application for learning Italian verb conjugation.

There's also a verb lookup as well with full conjugations, which is very handy.

These dictionaries include complete verb conjugation and grammar (agreements in gender and number of nouns and adjectives, german declensions ).

But the mutual exclusion in such cases need not survive the addition of a verb.

Non-finite verb forms include infinitives and participles, plus some derived adjectives.

You will encounter the verb ser (to be) and adjectives.

The Ides (from an obsolete verb iduare, to divide) were at the middle of the month, either the 13th or the 15th day; and the Nones were the ninth day before the Latin.

The verb, which is properly a kind of noun or participle, has no element of person, and denotes the conditions of tense and mood by an external and internal inflexion, or the addition of auxiliary verbs and suffixes when the stem is not susceptible of inflexion, so that instead of saying " I go," a Tibetan says " my going."

In the order of the sentence the substantive precedes the adjective and the verb stands last; the object and the adverb precede the verb, and the genitive precedes the noun on which it depends - this contrasts with the order in the isolating Chinese, where the order is subject, verb, object.

In Deuteronomy, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife," comes first, and "house" following in association with field is to be taken in the literal restricted sense, and another verb ("thou shalt not desire") is used.

In the De interpretatione, having distinguished the enunciation, or proposition, from other sentences as that in which there is truth or falsity, he relegated the rest to rhetoric or poetry, and founded the logic of the proposition, in which, however, he retained the grammatical analysis into noun and verb.

At this stage we are as much concerned with speech-forms as the thought-forms of which they are conventional symbols, with Plato's analysis, for instance, into a noun and a verb, whose connotation of time is as yet a difficulty.

All tenses of reflexive verbs except the imperative and present participle are formed by prefixing the pronoun which indicates the object to the verb, in the dative or genitive case (abbreviated) as the verb may require; but in the reflexive imperative and present participle the verb precedes the pronoun; e.g.

What has just been said as to the treatment of the final vowels in Catalan must be understood as applying only to pure Catalan, unaltered by the predominance of the Castilian, for the actual language is no longer faithful to the principle we have laid down; it allows the.final o atonic in a number of substantives and adjectives, and in the verb it now conjugates canto, temo, sentoa thing unknown in the ancient language.

To make a request more polite we might use the subjunctive form of the verb.

You ca n't add two suffixes to the same verb to create a different noun.

Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

There is a very 190 CRISWELL THEOLOGICAL REVIEW brief but suggestive indication of how to render the verb usually translated we know.

If the antecedent is the subject of the verb in the relative clause then qui is used.

In the sentence, The horse runs fast there is no object at all, so run is an intransitive verb.

There is an irregular verb Bandolier uses in its office.

The problem is more complex with verb inflections and in languages other than English.

A useful Italian verb conjugator hosted at the University of Trieste.

A caus. verb is a word used to show that a person or thing has caused something to happen.

You'll receive a definition of the word, what type of word it is (noun, verb, etc.) and a sentence using the word in that part of speech.

According to McConaughey, these are the words he lives by and they stand for "just keep livin" and that there is no "g" on the end of the word "livin" because "life's a verb."

Almost anyone can be enticed to hop on the pad and start DDRing (no, that's not a verb, but I'm working on it).

They seem to have particular problems with inflection and word forms, such as leaving off endings when forming verb tenses (for example, the -ed ending when forming the past tense).

They seem to have particular problems with inflection and word forms, such as leaving off endings when forming verb tenses (for example, the ed ending when forming the past tense).

The word adolescence is Latin in origin, derived from the verb adolescere, which means "to grow into adulthood."

Insert your skills here, started with an action verb, such as "Compiled," "Researched," "Conducted."

The technical definition of a French reflexive verb,is a verb whose object and subject are the same.

Secondly, you conjugate the verb appropriately with its -er, -ir or -re ending.

One other important note when conjugating reflexive verbs is that in past tenses where the verb requires an auxiliary verb such as passé composé, reflexive verbs always take être.

By using the reflexive prounoun me before the verb, you are already implying that it is your leg that you are breaking!

When there is no verb in the sentence, you must choose the feminine form.

On a sign, since there is usually no verb preceding the welcome message, one would choose the feminine form.

French reflexive verbs are a difficult subject for French learners to master, but French grammar and reflexive verb exercises can help you to perfect this challenging aspect of the French language.

The reason French grammar and reflexive verb exercises are so difficult for native English speakers learning French is because the structure is very different in French and in English.

In French, the owner of the hair that is expressed with the reflexive pronoun that comes before the verb.

A final check is to match the subject pronoun to the reflexive pronoun and verb, followed by the rest of the sentence; the end result is a complete, grammatical, sentence in which the reflexive verb is used correctly.

It should be noted though that while you can use it interchangeably where you would use the verb "go" in English, there are often better verbs to choose.

The verb is se promener and the connotation is that this is a leisurely walk around the neighborhood.

Hiking, or more strenuous walking has a different verb altoghether.

Venir is an irregular French verb and it means "to come."

It is different from the verb adorer, which means to love.

The object of the sentence, tu, comes before the verb.

Letting someone know you like them a lot just adds the adverb onto the verb.

Bien is an adverb and so it will always modify a verb in lieu of a noun.

The French verb connaître means to know someone or to be familiar with someone or something.

In comparison to the verb savoir, which means to know a fact, the meaning of connaître is less literal.

This irregular verb can pose some difficulties to students.

One of the most difficult details of the French verb connaître's conjugation is when to use the accent mark on the 'i' in the verb.

Called a circumflex accent, this accent is used in some conjugation forms of the verb, but not in others.

There are several expressions with the verb connaître that French learners should know as well.

While the verb can be used literally in all the above meanings, there are also some expressions that have non-literal meanings.

This French verb can throw a few curveballs with its irregular conjugation and its non-literal meanings, but with a little practice, it's a very handy verb to know!

Learning how to say, "I love you always," in French is not difficult if you learn a few basic words and a few basics of verb conjugation.

In order to formulate this phrase, start with the French verb for love, aimer.

The first step to learning how to say this phrase in French is to learn the verb aimer.

Aimer is a regular, -er verb, which means that it is fairly easy to conjugate.

However, saying "I love you" in French is not as easy as inserting the pronouns on either side of the conjugated version of the verb aimer.

Instead of conjugating the verb aimer in the present tense, it is conjugated in the future tense.

The general sense of the verb rater is to fail, as in, Je ne veux pas rater.

This advantage, recalled by an old though erroneous 1 Servus is not cognate with servare, as has often been supposed; it is really related to the Homeric E'lpepos and the verb Etpw, with which the Latin sero is to be connected.

From some of these peoples and at one of these holy places, a group of Israelite tribes adopted the religion of Yahweh, the God who, by the hand of Moses, had delivered them from Egypt.2 The tribes of this region probably belonged to some branch of the great Arab stock, and the name Yahweh has, accordingly, been connected with the Arabic hawa, " the void " (between heaven and earth), " the atmosphere," or with the verb hawa, cognate with Heb.

An active or causal verb requires before it the instrumental instead of the nominative case, which goes only before a neuter or intransitive verb.

There can be no doubt, too, that the word rendered "tabernacle" (aKrlvii) with the corresponding verb "to tabernacle" (crKnvovv) has been chosen for use in St John i.

It is an elementary introduction to the study of Hebrew, the first of its kind, in which only the most indispensable definitions and rules have a place, the remainder being almost wholly occupied by paradigms. Moses Kimhi was the first who made the verb paqadh a model for conjugation, and the first also who introduced the now usual sequence in the enumeration of stem-forms. His handbook was of great historical importance as in the first half of the 6th century it became the favourite manual for the study of Hebrew among non-Judaic scholars (1st ed., Pesaro, 1508).

Notice how the verb "faire", to make or do, is often used in conjunction with the weather.

The Syriac verb is remarkable for having entirely lost the original passive forms, such as in Arabic can be formed in every conjugation and in Hebrew are represented by the Pual and Hophal.

The popular etymology of the name Tabriz from tab=fever, riz = pourer away (verb, rikhtan = pour away, flow; German rieseln?), hence "fever-destroying," is erroneous and was invented in modern times.

The short discourse on the expression of thought by language (irEpi `Epjs vElas, De Interpretatione) is based on the Platonic division of the sentence (X6yos) into noun and verb (ivoµa and Am).

Nor does the work get further than the analysis of some propositions into noun and verb with " is " added to the predicated verb; an analysis, however, which was a great logical discovery and led Aristotle further to the remark that " is " does not mean " exists "; e.g.

The Semitic name of the symbol is shin; the Greek name sigma may mean merely the hissing letter and may be a genuine Greek derivative from the verb o-4co, hiss.

Even when the sign indicative of the verb is clearly recognised there still remains to be determined the form of the verb intended.

The word is now generally a synonym for "monkey," but the common verb for both (as transferred figuratively to human beings) is "to ape," i.e.

He speaks of the dominical host (hostia), and takes the verb to do in Paul's letter in the sense of to sacrifice.

Both interpretations, " He (who) is (always the same)," and " He (who) is (absolutely, the truly existent)," import into the name all that they profess to find in it; the one, the religious faith in God's unchanging fidelity to his people, the other, a philosophical conception of absolute being which is foreign both to the meaning of the Hebrew verb and to the force of the tense employed.

Whereas the Hebrew verb is devoid of real tenses, and only expresses an action as completed or as in process without indicating time past, present or future, Syriac has by the help of an auxiliary verb constructed a set of tenses.

The two main rules by which the order of the words in a sentence is regulated are - subject, verb, object; and qualifying words follow those which they qualify.

Among the striking peculiarities of the language are the definite and indefinite forms of the active verb, e.g.

A serious objection to this theory in every form is that the verb hayah, " to be," has no causative stem in Hebrew; to express the ideas which these scholars find in the name Yahweh the language employs altogether different verbs.

As a verb, the word means to stifle or check; hence damped vibrations or oscillations are those which have been reduced or stopped, instead of being allowed to die out naturally; the "dampers" of the piano are small pieces of feltcovered wood which fall upon the strings and stop their vibrations as the keys are allowed to rise; and the "damper" of a chimney or flue, by restricting the draught, lessens the rate of combustion.

Another explanation, which appears first in Jewish authors of the middle ages and has found wide acceptance in recent times, derives the name from the causative of the verb; He (who) causes things to be, gives them being; or calls events into existence, brings them to pass; with many individual modifications of interpretation - creator, lifegiver, fulfiller of promises.

There was a verb conjugator hosted at the University of Trieste.

But in spite of this great logical achievement, he continued throughout the discourse to accept Plato's grammatical analysis of all sentences into noun and verb, which indeed applies to the proposition as a sentence but does not give its particular elements.