Phrase Hound found 75 phrases and 41 compound words that contain verb. The most common are listed below. Open verb in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 75
- auxiliary verbA verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
- guess the verbThe undesirable situation, in a multi-user dungeon or interactive fiction, where the player wishes to perform an action but is unable to express it as a command that the system understands.
- irregular verbA verb that does not follow the normal rules for its conjugation.
- intransitive verbAn action verb which does not take a direct object.
- transitive verbA verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in …
- regular verbA verb which conjugates regularly. In English, a verb which uses an -ed suffix to form its past participle.
- modal verbA verb whose primary function is to express grammatical mood.
- reflexive verbA verb whose subject and direct object are the same.
- verb phraseA construction in a clause consisting of a verb and its internal complements, or modifiers.
- phrasal verbA two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
- defective verbA verb with an incomplete conjugation; for example, one that can only be conjugated in certain persons and numbers.
- main verbIn a clause, the verb with the highest semantic content, contrasted with auxiliary verb.
- strong verbAny of a class of Germanic verbs which use ablaut as opposed to a dental affix to indicate tense.
- light verbA semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.
- finite verbA verb inflected for person and tense that can stand on its own as a complete sentence.
- impersonal verbA verb used only in the infinitive or in the third person. In the third person, the subject is either implied or a dummy.
- non-finite verbA verb form that lacks a subject, is not inflected by tense, aspect, mood, number, gender or person and cannot serve as a predicate.
- ergative verbAn ambitransitive verb where the patient is the object of the transitive, but becomes the experiencer of the intransitive use.
- action verbA word that expresses action and tells what the subject of a sentence does.
- full verbA verb with its own meaning: a verb that is not an auxiliary verb.
- separable verbA verb that is composed of a stem and a separable affix, which can be detached from the stem in several verb forms.
- pronominal verbA form of verb that has an attached pronoun in some languages (e.g. French, Spanish).
- pro-verbA pro-form used to substitute for a verb or verb phrase.
- ditransitive verbA verb that requires (in the unmarked form) both a direct object and an indirect object so as to be grammatical.
- negative verbAn auxiliary verb used for negation in certain languages.
Compound words 41
- verbalOf or relating to words.
- deverbalDerived from a verb.
- verbformAlternative form of verb form: A specific instance or form of a verb, as opposed to the entire verb taken in the abstract.
- verbarianOne who coins words.
- verbnessQuality of being a verb.
- nonverbA word that is not a verb.
- verbateTo transcribe or repeat verbatim.
- verbdomThe realm, state, quality, sphere, or condition of being a verb; verbhood.
- verbyHaving the characteristics of a verb.
- multiverbInvolving more than one verb.