verb

英 [vɜːb] 美[vɝb]
  • n. 动词;动词词性;动词性短语或从句
  • adj. 动词的;有动词性质的;起动词作用的
  • n. (Verb)人名;(俄)韦尔布

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词态变化


复数: verbs;

中文词源


verb 动词

来自拉丁语verbum,词,言语,来自PIE*were,说话,词源同word,adverb,proverb.用于语法格指动词。

英文词源


verb
verb: [14] Latin verbum originally meant simply ‘word’ (a sense preserved in English verbal [15], verbiage [18], and verbose [17]); the specific application to a ‘word expressing action or occurrence’, which passed into English via Old French verbe, is a secondary development. Verbum goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *wer-, which also produced English word. English verve [17] comes ultimately from the Latin plural verba.
=> verbose, verve, word
verb (n.)
late 14c., from Old French verbe "word; word of God; saying; part of speech that expresses action or being" (12c.) and directly from Latin verbum "verb," originally "a word," from PIE root *were- (3) "to speak" (cognates: Avestan urvata- "command;" Sanskrit vrata- "command, vow;" Greek rhetor "public speaker," rhetra "agreement, covenant," eirein "to speak, say;" Hittite weriga- "call, summon;" Lithuanian vardas "name;" Gothic waurd, Old English word "word").

双语例句


1. How does this verb conjugate?
这个动词有哪些词形变化?

来自《权威词典》

2. a verb with an irregular conjugation
不规则动词

来自《权威词典》

3. The verb is in the subjunctive.
这个动词是虚拟语气。

来自《权威词典》

4. Of all these verbs the verb is the most extensively used.
在这些动词中应用范围最广的是这个动词.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.
在叙述过程中, 间接引语的动词通常用过去式.

来自《简明英汉词典》