VERB: verb
Definition
A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that typically signal events and actions, can constitute a minimal predicate in a clause, and govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause.
Note that the VERB tag covers main verbs (content verbs) and modal verbs but it does not cover auxiliary verbs, for which there is the AUX tag. (Ukrainian modal verbs are not considered auxiliary.) See the description of AUX for more information on the borderline between VERB and AUX.
Ukrainian verbs can take the following morphological forms:
- Infinitive (this is the citation form)
- Finite verb (indicative and imperative forms; conditional is constructed periphrastically). Ukrainian future tense can be formed either analitically, with the help of the auxiliary verb бути “to be” or syntactically, with the help of endings rooted in the auxiliary verb мати “to have”.
- Active and passive adverbial participle
- Impersonal form ending with -но/-то. In Slavic languages other than Ukrainian and Polish this form coincides with the neutral passive adjectival participle, but in those two languages the participle has a different ending: -не in Ukrainian and -ne in Polish, which is why it is treated as a separate verbal form.
There are participial forms that are tagged as adjectives (ADJ) rather than verbs. See below for border cases.
A verbal noun can be derived productively from almost every verb (e.g. робити “to do” → робіння “doing”). While in other languages a corresponding form may be called gerund and tagged VERB, in Ukrainian it is tagged NOUN. It has always the neuter uk-feat/Gender and it inflects for uk-feat/Number and uk-feat/Case.
Examples
- нести “to carry”
- несу, несеш, несе, несемо, несете, несуть “I carry, you carry, he/she/it carries, we carry, you carry, they carry”
- неси, несімо, несіть “carry” (imperative in different persons and numbers)
- ніс, несла, несло, несли “carried” (past tense forms in different genders and numbers)
- несено “(it was/somebody) carried” (passive impersonal form)
- несучи, нісши “carrying” (present and past adverbial participles)
Border cases
Passive and active adjectival participles are non-finite verb forms that share properties of verbs and adjectives.
- Passive adjectival participle is used to construct passive voice: несений, несена, несене, несені “carried” (passive participle in different genders and numbers). It is also used separately as an adjective: ношений, драний “carried, torn/ragged”. Their meaning is almost identical but the usage slightly varies. Both groups can be used in nominal predication with copula. Only true participles (verbs) can be used to form the passive voice (but it may be sometimes difficult to distinguish from copula constructions, see AUX). On the other hand, the participial adjectives inflect for case and thus can modify nouns.
- Active participle (it is considered ungrammatical but still used occasionally, which is why it is encoded): несучий, несуча, несуче, несучі “carrying” (present adjectival participle in different genders and numbers).
VERB in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [eu] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]