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AUX: auxiliary verb

Definition

Auxiliary verbs (AUX), which add functional and grammatical meaning to the sentence, expressing tense, aspect, mood, etc. The copula verb იჸინ iʔin ‘to be’ is used to express existence, identity, and predication, appearing in various forms to agree with person, number, and tense. In contemporary usage, it occurs both as a free form and as part of compound verb constructions, providing essential grammatical functions in equational and locational sentences.

Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags

Aux: Auxiliary verb, copula

Examples

იჸინ(iʔin)_ ‘to be’


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] [naq] [nmf] [no] [oge] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [xmf] [yue] [zh]