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
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》