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.
Examples
- tagi- “to come (base)”
- tagiit “they came”
- tagiiqngan “when it/he/she came”
If a word is further analyzed into morphemes, verb-yielding derivational morphemes are tagged as VERB. These include verb-elaborating suffixes (V→V) that attach to verbal roots and yield verbal bases and verbalizing suffixes (N→V) that attach to nominal roots and yield verbal bases.
Examples
- -yug(V→V) “to want to V” (as in mayughyugtuq “he wants to climb”)
- -lgu(N→V) “to have N” (as in siguteghllalguut “they have big ears”)
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] [xcl] [yue] [zh]