verb
pronunciation
How to pronounce verb in British English:
UK [vɜ:b]
How to pronounce verb in American English:
US [vɜrb]
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- Noun:
- a word that serves as the predicate of a sentence
- a content word that denotes an action or a state
Word Origin
- 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").
Example
- 1. And a sentence cannot be grammatically correct without a verb .
- 2. Keep subject and verb close together .
- 3. It usually has easy verb endings .
- 4. That will return the commands whose verb is exactly format .
- 5. I want you to think of service as a verb .