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Captative verbs indicate catching and hunting of a specific animal or other target, e.g. English to fish. Usually captatives are not separately marked
Captative_verb
Part of speech that conveys an action
Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic
Verb
Type of verb, such as "might", that is used to indicate modality
A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,
Modal_verb
Grammatical component
verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their
Light_verb
Verb adding grammatical meaning rather than content meaning
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect
Auxiliary_verb
Concept in English grammar
traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down
English_phrasal_verbs
Verb that describes a state of being
In linguistics, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference can
Stative_verb
Multi-word compound that functions as a single verb
compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector
Compound_verb
Verb that does not entail a direct object
In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes
Intransitive_verb
Verb that can be used transitively or intransitively
In general linguistics, a labile verb (or ergative / diffused / ambivalent verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used
Labile_verb
Verb formed from a noun
Look up denominal verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns. Many languages have regular morphological
Denominal_verb
Type of verb indicating more than just grammar
linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express
Lexical_verb
Verb with incomplete conjugation
In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain
Defective_verb
Verbs that can't complete a clause (such as "going" or "to live")
Nonfinite verbs are verb forms that do not show tense, person, or number. They include: Infinitives (e.g., to go, to see), which are the base forms of verbs, and
Nonfinite_verb
Verb that describes a continued or progressive action
dynamic verb is a verb that refers to continued or progressive action on the part of the subject, also known as an active verb, action verb, eventive verb or
Dynamic_verb
Verb with a prefix which separates from the core verb in certain positions in a sentence
A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear
Separable_verb
Classification of verbs by regularity of inflection
regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose
Regular_and_irregular_verbs
Type of inflection in Germanic languages
Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language
Germanic_strong_verb
Verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice
deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. A deponent verb has no
Deponent_verb
Verb that can precede another verb
Appendix:English catenative verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In English and other languages, catenative verbs are verbs which can be followed within
Catenative_verb
Verb which takes a subject and two objects
In grammar, a ditransitive (or bitransitive) verb is a transitive verb whose contextual use corresponds to a subject and two objects which refer to a
Ditransitive_verb
Verb that entails a transitive object
transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which
Transitive_verb
Functional part of speech in most languages
often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English
Copula_(linguistics)
Nonfinite verb form
a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that
Gerund
Complex predicate composed of a light verb and an eventive noun
A stretched verb is a complex predicate composed of a light verb and an eventive aspect noun. An example is the English phrase "take a bite out of", which
Stretched_verb
Part of speech
An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent
Attributive_verb
Verb that has no determinate subject
linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it
Impersonal_verb
Verb whose direct object is the same as its subject
reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the
Reflexive_verb
Verbs carried out through being uttered
Performative verbs are verbs carried out simply by means of uttering them aloud. When a judge sentences someone to jail time, for example, the action
Performative_verb
Verb that is both transitive and intransitive
ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive. This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive verbs. Examples
Ambitransitive_verb
Concept in linguistics
An anticausative verb (abbreviated antic) is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication
Anticausative_verb
Type of verb in Germanic languages
Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished
Germanic_weak_verb
Greek language word subclass
Pure verbs, or vocalic verbs, are those verbs of the Greek language that have their word stem ending in a vowel (monophthong or diphthong). The Greek pure
Pure_verbs
Concept in linguistics
term negative verb or negative auxiliary refers to an auxiliary verb whose function is to negate the clause in which it occurs. Negative verbs are similar
Negative_verb
Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
similar semantic behavior. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral
Part_of_speech
Concept in linguistics
In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb that takes a subject argument which is not a semantic agent, and does not actively initiate
Unaccusative_verb
Grammatical form
is a term in linguistics for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs that do not show a tense. As with many
Infinitive
Type of noun referring to collections as a unit
singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies, while in some other forms of English the verb agreement is less
Collective_noun
Grammar of the English language
prepositions, and by the "Saxon genitive or English possessive" (-'s). Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open classes – word classes that readily accept
English_grammar
Form of verbal noun used in some languages
most often used for Latin, where it is one of the four principal parts of a verb. The word also refers to a position of lying on one's back (as opposed to
Supine
change of state like a patient/subject." Some Spanish examples include "verbs of displacement," such as mudarse 'to move (in the sense of changing domicile)'
Autocausative_verb
Class of intransitive verb
In linguistics, an unergative verb is an intransitive verb that takes a subject argument which is a semantic agent, and actively initiates, and takes responsibility
Unergative_verb
linguistics, is a phenomenon in which the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in a superordinate clause and, if it is a pronoun, is unexpectedly
Exceptional_case-marking
Adverbial form of verb (adverb constructed from verbs)
In theoretical linguistics, a converb (abbreviated cvb) is a nonfinite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination: notions like 'when', 'because'
Converb
Noun formed from or otherwise corresponding to a verb
Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions as a noun. An example of a verbal noun in English is
Verbal_noun
Word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase
pro-forms that are not pronouns. In [5], did so is a verb phrase that stands in for "helped" (a pro-verb), inflected from to help stated earlier in the sentence
Pronoun
Grammatical construct resembling a verb
resembles a verb or co-operates with a verb. In languages that have the serial verb construction, coverbs are a type of word that shares features of verbs and
Coverb
Words that indicate a question is being asked, as a grammatical category
modify a verb. In the question How did you announce the deal? the interrogative word how is an interrogative adverb because it modifies the verb did (past
Interrogative_word
Word or form that substitutes for another word
phrase that functions as an adverb: how or this way. A pro-verb substitutes a verb or a verb phrase: do, as in: "I will go to the party if you do". A pro-sentence
Pro-form
Pronoun having no referent
dummy pronouns is with weather verbs, such as in the phrases "it is snowing" or "it is hot." In these sentences, the verb (to snow, to rain, etc.) is usually
Dummy_pronoun
Part of speech that defines a noun or pronoun
with verbs, rather than an adjective meaning "big", a language might have a verb that means "to be big" and could then use an attributive verb construction
Adjective
Type of word or affix that is used to accompany nouns
and others. A less typical example of classifiers is those used with the verb. Verbal classifiers are found in languages like Southern Athabaskan. Classifier
Classifier_(linguistics)
Anaphoric pronoun
the noun the pronouns are emphasizing or, if the noun is subject, after-verb-or-object position is also possible. For example, "Why don't you yourself
Reflexive_pronoun
Personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb
a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a
Subject_pronoun
Grammar term
Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases. Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally
Deverbal_noun
Adverb connecting two independent clauses
by converting the clause it introduces into an adverbial modifier of the verb in the main clause. For example, in "I told him; thus, he knows" and "I told
Conjunctive_adverb
Pronoun that is associated with a particular grammatical person
raining". So, it is a pronoun but not a pro-form. Finally, in [3], did so is a verb phrase, not a pronoun, but it is a pro-form standing for "help". Languages
Personal_pronoun
andative and venitive (abbreviated and and ven) are a type of verbal deixis: verb forms which indicate 'going' or 'coming' motion, respectively, in reference
Andative_and_venitive
Verbs that behave as an adjective
A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument)
Predicative_verb
Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment
thought interjections modified the verb much in the same way as adverbs do, thus interjections were closely connected to verbs. Unlike their Greek counterparts
Interjection
Phonological process
of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) This process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun
Initial-stress-derived_noun
Latin verb form that functions as an adjective
In Latin grammar, a gerundive (/dʒəˈrʌndɪv/) is a verb form that functions as a verbal adjective. In Classical Latin, the gerundive has the same form as
Gerundive
Word which is similar in form to a preposition but acts as an adverb
also modify the verb, which a preposition does not. An example of a prepositional adverb in English is inside in He peeked inside. A verb combined with
Prepositional_adverb
Verb prefix in Caucasian languages
certain elements prefixed to verbs. In the context of Indo-European languages, the term is usually used for separable verb prefixes. Theoretically, any
Preverb
Grammatical use indicating possession
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Possessive
Word used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Article_(grammar)
Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information
class words, lexical words, or autosemantic words) and include nouns, most verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, although some adverbs are function words
Function_word
Type of determiner that indicates quantity
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Quantifier_(linguistics)
Cause or initiator of an event
one doing') of the Latin verb agere, to 'do' or 'make'. Typically, the situation is denoted by a sentence, the action by a verb in the sentence, and the
Agent_(grammar)
Grammatical aspect that indicates repeated action over multiple occasions or places
Some frequentative verbs surviving in English, and their parent verbs are listed below. Additionally, some frequentative verbs are formed by reduplication
Frequentative
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Latin_interjections
Concept in grammar
passive verbs. The particle i signals the past imperfect tense, the object of a transitive verb or the subject of a sentence formed with "neuter verbs" (a
Grammatical_particle
Adjective that occurs immediately after the noun or pronoun that it complements
and any adjective may be a predicate adjective if it follows a copular verb. For example: monsters unseen were said to lurk beyond the moor (postpositive
Postpositive_adjective
Grammatical distinction in pronouns and agreement
distinction is marked on dual and plural forms of verbs, independent pronouns, and possessive pronouns. Where verbs are inflected for person, as in the native
Clusivity
Type of pronoun that marks a relative clause
can be said to have a gap, or zero, in the position of the object of the verb saw. Other arguments can be relativised using relative pronouns: Subject
Relative_pronoun
Grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns
dual nouns with verbs and adjectives. Verbs follow nouns in plural agreement only when the verb comes after the subject. When a verb comes before an explicit
Animacy
Words indicating which object is being referred to
compound forms based on the definite articles (themselves derived from verbs) and therefore incorporate the positional information of the articles (standing
Demonstrative
theta-role describes the connection of meaning between a predicate or a verb and a constituent selected by this predicate. The number, types and positions
Theta_criterion
Linguistic category
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Discourse_marker
Personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object
used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns
Object_pronoun
Noun whose quantity is treated as an undifferentiated unit
no concept of singular and plural, although in English they take singular verb forms. However, many mass nouns in English can be converted to count nouns
Mass_noun
Stressed form of a personal pronoun
staying. in elliptical constructions (often "sentence fragments") with no verb (e.g. short answers) Qui veut du gâteau ? Moi. Who wants cake? Me. (cf. "I
Disjunctive_pronoun
Pronoun without a definite referent
has the following quantifier pronouns: Uncountable (thus, with a singular verb form) enough – Enough is enough. little – Little is known about this period
Indefinite_pronoun
them, their, theirs, themselves, and themself) has been used with a plural verb form to refer to a singular antecedent. This usage is known as the singular
Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_gendered_third-person_pronouns
Type of pronoun
functions as an adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of a verb. Both intensive and reflexive pronouns make reference to an antecedent. For
Intensive_pronoun
Formality distinction feature of some languages
g. in French); addressing individuals with another pronoun with its own verb conjugations (e.g. in Spanish). The terms T and V, based on the Latin pronouns
T–V_distinction
Form of personal pronoun
watch him; look at him) may complement either prepositions or transitive verbs. In some other languages, a special set of pronouns is required in prepositional
Prepositional_pronoun
Grammatical construct in which a noun modifies another noun
Child Health and Human Development "Eunice Kennedy Shriver". Attributive verb Gerund Participle Nominalized adjective, an adjective used as a noun Apostrophe
Noun_adjunct
Noun or noun phrase whose quantity is discrete and usually an integer
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Count_noun
Pronoun that indicates a relationship which is reciprocal
we can look at a reciprocal relationship using this notation, using the verb see as the relation: see(Anne, Betty) and see(Betty, Anne). Within the theory
Reciprocal_pronoun
Part of speech
Africa and South Asia, the form of the complementizer can be related to the verb say. In those languages, the complementizer is also called the quotative
Complementizer
Nouns that follow weak inflection
cases end in -a or -ja. The noun is derived from the present participle of a verb, in which case the plural ends in -ur (but the singular follows the -i-a
Weak_noun
Lack of requirement for morphological agreement with respect to gender in some languages
agreement between nouns and associated pronouns, adjectives, articles, or verbs. The notion of a genderless language is distinct from that of gender neutrality
Gender neutrality in genderless languages
Gender_neutrality_in_genderless_languages
Words that measure quantities
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Measure_word
Use of a pronoun tied to an antecedent
example of movement that would result in a trace would be when an auxiliary verb is moved from a main clause to the beginning of a sentence to form a question
Resumptive_pronoun
Determiner which modifies a noun by attributing possession
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Possessive_determiner
Linguistic sentence with null subject
whole sentence, but also a part of it, either the subject and the verb, or the verb and a complement, and can also constitute a subordinate clause. The
Pro-sentence
Concept in linguistics
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Modal_particle
Descriptive word with initial capital letter
Ambitransitive Andative / Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive
Proper_adjective
Adverb that is the same as its adjective form
adverb sure can only modify verbs. Citing data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, sure was followed by a verb 7,396 times, but it was rarely
Flat_adverb
CAPTATIVE VERB
CAPTATIVE VERB
Male
Greek
(ΚÏÏος) Greek form of Hebrew Kowresh (Persian Kûrush), KYROS means "like the sun." In the bible, this is the name of the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great, conqueror of Babylon, who freed the captive Jews.Â
Boy/Male
Biblical
Respiration, conversion, taking captive.
Biblical
that makes captive
Male
Greek
(ΒαÏαββᾶς) Greek form of Aramaic bar-Abba, BARABBAS means "son of the father." In the New Testament bible, this is the name of a captive robber whom the Jews begged Pilate to release instead of Christ.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old French verb fourbir ‘to burnish’, ‘to furbish’ (a word of Germanic origin), an occupational name for a polisher of metal, in particular someone employed by an armorer to put the finishing touches to his work.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Gemaryah, GEMARIAH means "God has accomplished." In the bible, this is the name of the son of Hilkiah who bore Jeremiah's letter to the captive Jews.Â
Boy/Male
Biblical
Who rests himself, who is now captive'.
Male
English
 Latin form of Greek Kyros, CYRUS means "like the sun." In the bible, this is the name of the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great, conqueror of Babylon, who freed the captive Jews.Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a hardener of metals or a baker, from an agent derivative of Middle English harde(n); this verb is known to have been used with reference to metals and to heating dough.North German, Frisian, and Danish : from a personal name, Harder, Herder.South German : topographic name or habitational name from any of the places named with Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Causative
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Horsefall in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ (perhaps a byname) + fall ‘clearing’, ‘place where the trees have been felled’ (from fellan ‘to fell’, causative of feallan ‘to fall’).
Girl/Female
Biblical
That makes captive.
Male
Hebrew
(גְּמַרְיָה) Hebrew name GEMARYAH means "God has accomplished." In the bible, this is the name of the son of Hilkiah who bore Jeremiah's letter to the captive Jews.Â
Biblical
who rests himself; who is now captive
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name from ‘The Leen’ (earlier Leon, ‘at the streams’) in Hereford or the Leen river in Nottinghamshire. Both are derived from a Celtic root verb lei- ‘flow’ (for example as in Welsh lliant ‘stream’).English : variant spelling of Lean.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : probably a variant of Jelley.German and Frisian : from a Germanic personal name composed with gelt-, cognate with the verb gelten ‘sacrifice’, ‘repay’.Norwegian : unexplained.
Male
Hebrew
(כּׄרֶש×) Hebrew form of Persian K�rush, KOWRESH means "like the sun." In the bible, this is the name of the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great, conqueror of Babylon, who freed the captive Jews.Â
Biblical
respiration; conversion; taking captive;man sitting in Nob;dweller on the mount, he that predicts;
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably an adjective derivative of fear ‘man’.English : metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river. Middle English feri ‘ferry’ is from Old Norse ferja ‘ferry’, ultimately cognate with the Old English verb ferian ‘to carry’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Hipswell in North Yorkshire, named in Old English possibly as ‘stream with stepping stones’; the first element may be from an unattested noun derivative hyppels of the verb hoppian ‘to hop’, and the second is wella, wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
CAPTATIVE VERB
CAPTATIVE VERB
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
One Endowed with Speech; Eloquent; Spokesperson; Feminine of Natiq
Boy/Male
Tamil
Kind, Merciful, Gentle
Girl/Female
Spanish
Sweet.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Rays of God
Boy/Male
English Greek American
Dusty one; servant.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Someone who is concerned about the welfare (Hita) of others, Indian
Girl/Female
Biblical
Coldness, target, weapon.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Honour; Pride; Glory
Girl/Female
Australian, French, Greek
Prophetess; From Cassandra
Boy/Male
Indian
Narration of prophet Muhammad
CAPTATIVE VERB
CAPTATIVE VERB
CAPTATIVE VERB
CAPTATIVE VERB
CAPTATIVE VERB
n.
A captive; a prisoner.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Captive
a.
Adaptive.
a.
In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
v. t.
To take prisoner; to capture.
a.
Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
a.
Captive; wretched; unfortunate.
n.
The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.
adv.
In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
n.
A word which expresses or suggests a cause.
a.
Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
a.
Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.
n.
A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.
n.
Something to be desired.
a.
Expressing desire or wish.
p. a.
Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed.
imp. & p. p.
of Captive
adv.
In a causative manner.
a.
Causing; causative.
a.
Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.