aux: auxiliary
An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause, e.g., a modal auxiliary, or a form of ser, fazer or ter in a periphrastic tense.
Note that in Portuguese, verbs as “começar”, “acabar”, “terminar” are analysed as aspectualizers of the main verb (following ROCIO, S. Começar e acabar: aspestualizadores em processo de gramaticalização, then they should be tagged as aux.
Exception: Auxiliary verb used to construct the passive
voice is not labeled aux but auxpass.
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aux(estudado, tenham)
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aux(dizer, pode)
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aux(assinando, Acabou)
aux in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [gsw] [gub] [hy] [id] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]