AUX: auxiliary verb
Definition
An auxiliary verb is a verb that accompanies the lexical verb of a verb phrase and expresses grammatical distinctions not carried by the lexical verb, such as person, number, tense, mood and voice.
In Estonian UD, auxiliaries are:
olema ‘be’ and in rare occasions saama ‘get’ are auxiliaries that form periphrastic tense forms;
modal verbs are võima, tohtima ‘may’, saama ‘can’, pidama ‘must’, näima ‘seem’, paistma ‘seem’, tunduma ‘seem’;
ei and ära ‘not’ in negative verb forms.
AUX in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]